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Anon, Holly Tree Groove and Kestrel Crack and some Abseil learning, its was a "dope on a rope" day with an aspirant MCI, so more learning than mileage.
AA and hopefully FS are hopefully last weekend of this month. Technically, should be all fine and dandy, just need to see how I cope with the additional exposure.
Much of the aircraft left up there now?
Quite a bit but it's well scattered. Still need to climb over a wheel and propeller in Fuselage Gully.
Spin, is that one of the routes on the Far East Buttress, Sumo or something?
Yesterday’s early morning jaunt up Ben More and great panoramic views across the isles and mountains
A day out on the southern Cuillin munros. Mrs Chickenman, a friend of ours and a stray we picked up at Coire Ghrunnda did the two summits of Sgurr nan Eag and Sgurr Dubh Mor. Often thought to be amongst the easier group of munro summits on the ridge it was interesting to do those hills with folk who've done the obvious hard ticks on the ridge but are not really happy at all on rough terrain, this pair of hills even if not too technically hard are just remorselessly rough and hard going. we needed a rope to downclimb the scrambling on Sgurr Dubh Mor. It was a very, very long day!
Just glad it wasn't us they were looking for!
Extraordinary house sized piece of peridotite.
Spin, is that one of the routes on the Far East Buttress, Sumo or something?
Pale Diedre on Eastern Ramparts. The main pitch is amazing.
Extraordinary house sized piece of peridotite.
Hard to get a sense of scale on that photo.
Yes, not the best pic. The dried out mud look is really weird and the lentil sized white crystals so vivid.
Only ever did some of the Far East Wall routes, too late now as I climb like a fanny these days.
Beinn Udlamain and Sgàirneach Mhòr this weekend. Two more of the lumps around Drumochter. Cracking views, not the most scintillating of hills.
/Quote Muriel Gray
Nice view of Scheihallion
/End Muriel
In 30+ years of wandering hills in the UK I've never seen such dry conditions. Crispy. 🙁
@spin dont suppose you have a GR and spot height for Afterthought Arete?
Cheers Spin, bagged Pygmy Ridge and Afterthought Arete today. Need to come back for Final Selection but took a good look at it today, relatively short but looks superb.
Nice one, how did it go?
Splendidly, apart from I should have taken more water.
It wasnt really an exercise in climbing at my limit, more a case of getting multi pitch practise/experience built. Probably a fair few more days like that before wandering onto harder ground. I could certainly see myself soloing those routes some day.
I could certainly see myself soloing those routes some day.
They're pretty much in that grey area between scrambling and climbing.
The next few weeks are going to be hard to get through after this
Bloody hell there'll need to be a name change to Mont Gris at this rate!
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Well it's not exactly blanc like it used to be.
Ben Hope on Friday. A rather frustrating view of the inside of a cloud at the top instead of expansive views of the North coast. Later in the day summiteers may have had a glimpse - but we were off by 3pm after a forecast of heavy rain moving in at 3pm... But that's playing 'one day to climb a hill' darts when you book a holiday.
Cracking day out - we're planning a return to Loyal and Kilbreck.
High Cup Nick a couple of weekends ago
Beautiful weather, fantastic views was a great day with my 12 y/o.
I had a few problems loading the photos last night but the order they are above is 1, 4, 5, 2, 3
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The route was Pengenfford to Waun Fach along the Dragon's Back ridge then south to Pen Twyn Glas and then descending off Pen Allt-Mawr to Cwmdu.
A bit of a wander around the NW Carneddau today, up Cwm Pen Llafar to the Black Ladders, then up onto Yr Elen and back to Bethesda. I shall sleep well tonight, it was chuffing warm out there.
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Mrs_oab and eldest_oab had a lovely day on Friday up Stob Gabhar and Stob a'Choire Odhair and the 'other' Anoach Eagach...meanwhile I pushed pixels.
Ben Macdui Friday, spotted a day of decent weather while working nearby so booked a last minute day off and made it up to the summit. Pretty chuffed as wanted to do it for a few years so one that's finally ticked off.
Weekend before I did Mount Keen too, not such perfect views from the top, would have been if I'd hung on few hours more but such is life.
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That’s a grand looking dog!
Managed to stitch together 2300ft of ascent over a 14 mile walk in the Chilterns on Saturday, who says we haven't got hills darn sarf...
#it was very repetitive..
Mrs CM had only 11 munros left to do. She's not very fit really and is slow placing her feet on rough terrain, The group of four north of Loch Mullardoch were always going to be real challange (the summit nearest the starting point she'd done previously). With the boat trip up the loch not being an option again this year we decided to approach the remaining three from Strathfarrar. The gate up the glen opens at 9am and closes at 7pm (it was the first day of September) and cars have to be out of the glen by then. With timescales too tight I dropped Mrs CM and her bike off at the road, drove the car out the glen and cycled the 15.5 miles back to the road end. By now it was midday and 2.00 before I caught up with the other half just short of the Sgurr na Lappaich summit. It's a big drop and reascent to the next summit An Riabhachan and at 5.30 there was a decision to make about An Socach. We decided not to be sensible and continued...it's a bloody long way.
The sun was setting behind the Cuilin when the made our way down from the final top, down a nice ridge curving down northeast into the endless square miles of bog that are a feature of the land surrounding Loch Monar. It's three miles of pathless bog and four of boggy path to get back to the bikes at the road end. The time was now midnight; the 15.5 miles back to the car took another two. Bedtime 4am.
Family walking epic to end all epics. But fun, I think
BTW we met a woman who was running the twelve munros bounding Loch Mullardoch (plus a deleted one). She had set off at 5am and was on summit number ten!
^ that's a great adventure.
As MOAB says, finishing off the Mullardoch round is a good one to tick off.
I did it with 2 friends in late Sept 2003, over the classic 3 days.
Day 1 - the southern side of the Loch from the roadend; Toll Creagach, Tom a'Choinnich, Beinn Fhionnlaidh and Carn Eige, then a camp under Mam Sodhail at Loch Uaine.
Day 2 was up onto Mam Sodhail, a descent that looked like a very long drop to the Bealach Coire Ghaideil, then over An Socach to Sgurr nan Ceathreamhnan and north to Mullach na Dheiragain. One of the party had done that one before, so went to collect a 'top' of Ceathreamhnan instead, then met us in the valley at the west end of Mullardoch. We camped high that night either in Coire na Breabaig or Coire Lungard.
Day 3 finished off the round over An Socach, An Riabhachan, Sgurr na Lapaich and Creag Dubh.
I wish I'd taken a camera with me, as the weather was great all weekend, but we were trying to keep the weight right down, and I only owned a hefty film SLR at the time.
Slept well back at the bunkhouse that evening.
Sunrise on Pen-y-Ghent Saturday morning 
Yes, I know unimaginative doing the Yorkshire 3 peaks, but as a southerner I've had my fill of impassable routes 
A couple of shortish days backpacking with my brother in the boggy wilds of the southern Arans
Gwaun y Llwyni from the north:-
The steep eastern face of Drws Bach:-
A misty (and windy) descent to Creiglyn Dyfi:-
Camping below Creiglyn Dyfi:-
(Yes, that is indeed a 40-odd year old Phoenix Phreak, and it's still pretty serviceable)
Walking back out down the Hengwm path to Cwm Cywarch:-
We only did about 10 miles in total between Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. But we're not the spring chickens we once were when dad used to bring us up this way, sadly.
From the Pinzgauer Spaziergang (Zell am See to Saalbach) a couple of weeks ago
