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Attempt at Sgurr nan Gillean
Map Overcast & spots of rain when I got up at 8.00 and the midges were already frolicking around the campsite. I had breakfast at the Slig Hotel and, determined not to spend another night in Midge Grotto, I got the tent down and then set off to have a bash at Sgurr nan Gillean. It was a longish walk in and I missed the bit where the SnG path forks off to the left (it's about 300 paces past meeting the main stream (not the first wee stream) by a 12 foot waterfall where 2 planks take you across. Anyway I missed it and carried on till I got to the Basteir Gorge - unmistakeable. Realising my mistake now I decided to carry on and do Am Basteir instead. I followed the path but it was wending its way up the right side of the gorge whereas the book had said to follow the left hand side. Nevertheless I continued, ascending a steep, slabby stone bit with water running off it, and donning my rainproofs now because it kept raining - the tops were completely invisible. After a while I began to feel uneasy about the rain and cloud, bearing in mind that the final ascent is supposed to be a narrow, exposed, tricky scramble, and in the end I turned round - the weather could well improve but I wasn't in the mood to sit there for hours waiting. Once back in civilisation I posted a couple of InPin postcards and returned Ron's fleece shirt he'd left in the car - he gave me a cup of tea. Then I drove back to Spean Bridge to the same B&B I'd stayed in on the way up - RoseBank. |
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