Saturday 20 August 2011

Ben Klibreck

8.6 miles, 730m ascent, 4 hours

A truly testing day of weather, which happened to coincide with my last Munro.  The rain didn't relent on the ascent and the wind funnelled up the valley, trying to knock us over ont he summit cone.  I had to hold on to Ben in the 60mph wind and we didn't hang around to celebrate with Alison.  I can see why I left this until last.  The short route is a slosh through the bog followed by a nice bit of ridge but the ridge doesn't make up for the bog.  Wanting to complete a second round on Ben Wyvis in two days time, I left Alison and Ben on the descent and ran down then back up again whilst they had a drink in the pub.


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