| | ||||||||
| | ||||||||
| | ||||||||
|
Meall Dearg Sgorr nam Fiannaidh Map We parked the sturdy Peugeot 406 in a layby just west of Allt-na-reigh (a building) in Glencoe and were immediately mobbed by hordes of blood-crazed midges which proceeded to chase us most of the way up the slopes of Am Bodach.
It was a cloudy day and near the top it started to rain but this didn't last. Couldn't see much at the top of Am Bodach because it was in cloud but we set off along the ridge - quite a lot of scrambling and had to use hands but plenty of good handholds. Once past 'the Chancellor' (an up & down bit) it cleared a bit and after that we got some good views of the ridge and the surrounding peaks though the cloud occasionally came back to obscure them.
A dodgy bit just before Stob Coire Leith but OK after that up to the top of Sgorr nam Fiannaidh. Our route of descent was due south into Glencoe - very steep on shifting ground with outcrops that would end in vertical drops. I fell heavily on my ankle and thought I'd break it but it was OK - a bit painful later that night. The trip took us 7 hours though the book reckoned 3-5 hrs. You'd be pretty nippy to do it in 3 hours!
We spent the night in a flat run by the Tailrace Inn in Kinlochleven (£21). That night there happened to be a lot of young Germans drinking in the bar and one of the songs playing on the juke box was Bob Dylan's 'With God on Their Side'. This song has the wonderful line 'though they murdered 6 million, in the ovens they fried, now the Germans too have... God on their side'. A tad insensitive, perhaps, with the Germans all around, but Andrew found it amusing and muted snatches of the delightful ditty could subsequently be heard emanating from his direction for the rest of the evening. | ||||||||
 | ||||||||
