Thursday 10 February 2011

Sgiath Chuill, Meall Ghlas

12 miles, 1100m ascent, 9 hours

After entering the cloud at around 500m, we stayed in a white world until the final descent.  Fortunately the wind was only fresh, but even this whipped up the spindrift.  precise navigation was the order of the day in thick snow with no prints and equally thick mist.  The snow was heavy and approaching knee deep, so it was laborious trailblazing for the whole day and no doubt Ben found it similarly tough to follow.  nevertheless, it made these rather lumpy mountains, something more of a challenge.

No comments:

Post a Comment