LOCH TREIG EAST
View from Stob Coire Sgriodain with Tony's last 2 Munros of previous leg top right. Photo tms.nickbramhall.com
10.8 miles 1420 metres
Start Saturday 10.57
Stob Coire Sgriodain 11.58
Chno Dearg 12.14
Beinn na Lap 13.25
Finish 13.43
Squares: yellow - changeovers. Circles summits: green - this leg. Map Colin Matheson
Time: Estimated 3.00 Actual 2.46
Ian writes:
I waited around in the tent feeling cold and miserable, but Tony's appearance soon had me off and running, the gloom of Loch Treig but a distant memory. The wind was icy but kept me moving along the tops that were just below a ceiling of scudding clouds.
Once onto Stob Coire Sgriodain the running was superb over grassy and rocky undulations to the pyramid dome of Chno Dearg. From here lo! And behold! A real stone shoot had me spinning down to the burn where a semi submergence came as a surprise but no matter the heat soon returned with the long grindy toil up onto Beinn na Lap.
Here the sky was open and blue and friends on distant horizons called me to their far heights. Refreshed and rerevved by the recharge of physical and mental energies that can only be brought about by such wild places, I charged off down a marvellous running slope to the youth hostel only to be bogged down by the oozing undulations of an ill advised short cut. Eventually crawling out of the mire I regained my 'mountain man' composure to arrive at the hostel to find John sitting there casually sipping tea seemingly oblivious to the task ahead of him.
Peaks done 154 time taken 7 days 11 hours peaks to go 123
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