The munro itch returned as I spotted high pressure oversettling in over Scotland, time to head north.
There is not a lot of light this time of year and there had been some big dumps of snow so I was looking at the more accesible hills, starting with the Crianlarich area.
It
was gonna be cold, I did not fancy camping so I checked out the Youth
Hostels, precictably all the hostels in that area were shut, that was
a waste of time. So I looked at booking.com I was amazed that I got
at B&B at youth hostel prices.
One
June day in 2005 I had climbed Beinn Alachdair 1038m crawling the
last 50 metres on my hands and knees in a blizzard. I abandoned the
plan of traversing the ridge to its higher neighbour Beinn Chreachain
1081m drove south and had a BBQ that night.
Today
I was going to ascend the normal descent route to Beinn Chreachain
1081m the temps were -7 at the start so everithing was iced up under
deep powder snow making the ascent very difficult. I decided to take
some photos with my compact, after a couple of clicks the battery
died.
I
flogged my way up to the summit and back in deep powder under
cloudless blue skies cursing myself for leaving my compact camera
overnight in the frozen cars.
Back
at the car I decided to drive north and take advantage of the weather
to take some classic roadside photos. The final stop was in Glencoe,
as I started the car a warning sign came up Remote imobillser battery
failing. Luckily it started and I drove straight to the auto
electrics shop in Fort Bill just sneaking in as the closed sign was
in hand.
I
replaced the battery and sat outside the shop in the half light with
the car handbook working out how to reprogramme the immobiliser , got
it third go!!!!!!
Rannoch Moor
The Three Sisters
Aonach Eagach
Stob Corrie nan Beith
