14 - LOCH EARN SOUTH
From Stuc a' Chroin. Ross started in the glen left of picture just hidden by the near slope. Photo tms.nickbramhall.com
7.4 miles 1050 metres
Start Thursday 21.56
Stuc a' Chroin 23.21
Ben Vorlich Friday 00.39
Finish 01.46
Squares: Green - start, red - finish. Circles summits: green - this leg. Map Colin Matheson
Time: Estimated 2.10 Actual 3.50
This leg emphasised Ross's unpreparedness as it turned out that he was unaware that he had been up his first summit in the Stuc a' Chroin race where we had all met in May.
He was just too slow in getting up there as the torrential downpour that we all experienced hit him just before he reached the summit. He could have got up in time to be over the top before it was truly dark, and before the rain.
The eastern face of Stuc a' Chroin is very steep and rocky. I had told him that he could follow a path down from the obvious cairn on the plateau. However because it started on a zigzag in the wrong direction he spent a long time messing around before he eventually decided to take it which in the prevailing weather must have been very cold and dispiriting.
Peaks done 100 Hours elapsed 114 Peaks to do 177
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