Barrisdale to Barrisdale
The weather today was good, cloudy with sunny intervals with an odd light shower, the wind although not strong was very cold.
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| Barrisdale Bay |
I decided to wander up to Ladhar Beinn, the highest hill you can see from Barrisdale. After talking to some Cape Wrath Trail Walkers in the bothy and taking down my tent as I wanted the walking poles to help me up the hill. I left the majority of my gear at the bothy and set off.
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| Loch Hourn |
The way up is to climb over a spur and into Coire Dhorcail, a beautiful glen where the John Muir Trust have planted a lot of trees. As I climbed up it started to get very cold between the sunny intervals and I had a change of plan and decided to stay lower and explore the Corrie.
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| Looking up the corrie |
It was lovely when I found a windless spot and the sun was shining, warm enough to take my gloves off! I climbed up to the bottom of the big rocky buttresses that make up the head of the Corrie and even found a snow patch.
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| Approaching the cliffs, note the tiny snow patch. |
It was a beautiful place to contemplate life, the universe and everything.
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| On the way down |
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| Strange shapes in the snow |
Back to the campsite then where a lot more CWT walkers appeared including a German walking with two dogs, each carrying their own little packs.
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| Trees at the bottom of the glen |
I didn't find anymore ticks.
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