11th May
A bright sunny morning. No-one arrived last night so I had the bothy to myself,not even a mouse for company.
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| River Kingie |
The hardest part of wading the river was climbing up the bank on the far side.
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| Glen Kingie |
This is a beautiful empty glen and I didn't see anyone until reaching Glen Garry where I met a few Challengers who had. started at Sheil Bridge.
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| More Glen Kingie, it seems to have changed colour |
The path takes a high route on the North side of the glen with fantastic views back to the bothy and the hills beyond. including the sight of a Golden Eagle that took off from beside a burn well below the path and after a couple of wing flaps found a thermal and went up to at least 500 feet before climbing up and across the glen, all with no more than 20 wing strokes.
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| No eagle picture, I tried but only got sky and blurry bits. |
When I did enter a stand of trees, giving some welcome shade, I looked up at one point and there was a pair of White Tailed Eagles flying just above the trees.
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| River Kingie |
There has been extensive tree harvesting in this area so the walk has much better views than the last time I was here, there was one section that was hard on the feet where they had improved the track for lorries with 2" stones.
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| Felled Forest |
A hot walk in the sunshine, good training for Spain. Three ticks today, I must have picked them up after crossing the river because the rest of the walk was on a track. There were a lot of deer in that area last night. FC
I even needed to practice putting stones on the tent pegs due to the stoney ground, will be useful in Spain.
17.5 miles walked 650 meters ascent
2 comments:
Well done Roger. Good to see you going well.
Thanks Martin
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