Gleann Beag to Suardalan Bothy
There was quite a lot of rain last night but it had stopped sometime before I woke. The cloud slowly lifted during the day but it was quite cold, luckily the wind was light.
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| Rickety bridge |
I had decided on a short day with just one hill to climb, up and down the same route. Quite why I carried my full pack all the way I'm not sure, but it was good exercise!
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| Looking down on last night's camp spor |
It was a very long ridge that took me back above the Glen that I had camped in. A narrow ridge with a mixture of steep heather and big rocky lumps before reaching a sort of rough plateau.
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| Rough at the top |
There were rocky humps and little lochans all over the top and I'm sure that the hump marked as the highest on the map isn't.
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| I wonder where the top is? |
I went over a few to be sure that I had reached the summit before retracing my steps down the ridge. I met a man climbing up who is staying in the bothy that I was heading for, company tonight.
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| View from the bothy |
After recrossing the rickety bridge I was almost back to where I camped (why did I carry all my gear?) from where it was only a few kilometres along a track to the bothy.
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| Suardalan Bothy |
I should have looked for firewood along the way as there is none around the bothy but at least the sun showed it's face for a little while in the evening.
It was an interesting evening, three girls from Holland arrived and the man I met on the hill was a ranger for the Woodland Trust based in Assynyt where they are planting, in conjunction with the Assynyt Foundation, loads of native trees. Two hundred and fifty thousand for a start this year.
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