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.
This is a catalogue of my son Ben's Munro Bagging with me. We did a few around Ben's 6th birthday, but only really started ticking them off the following year, often as part of multi-day backpacks and sometimes in the winter. On 28 August 2011 we finished on Ben More with Ben having reached the ripe old age of 10 years and 3 months. Its been a great experience.
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.
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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