Buachaille Etive Beag, 27th Feb 2013

Beautifully clear winter day, no wind, no rain, no clouds. Camped at Kings House in minus 14 temperature. Easy walk upto the saddle between the two peak of Buachaille Etive Beg then on to the Northern peak. Slightly more interesting very snowy ridge to gain the Souther top of Stob Dubh. Fell asleep for a while on second top. Stunning views.

A very cold night at the Kings House

Just reaching the coll

Northern summit - Stob Corie Raineach

Ben Nevis

Stob Dubh and loch Etive

Buchaille Etive Mor

Ridge to Stob Dubh

Maddy with Bidean (central peak) in background - see later post...

Ben Vorlich & Stuc a Chroin, 15th Feb 2013

Quite wintery, especially on climb up to 2nd peak - Stuc a Chroin. Massive Gilkes hydro project at bottom of walk. Cloudy at times but clear on tops - got decent view of Tramachan and Lawers ridges (unlike when we were on them last walk..!)

Vorlich from S side of Loch Earn

Looking N, loch Earn, Lawers in back

Stuc a Chroin

Top of B Vorlich

looking back to B Vorlich from Stuc a Chroin

Maddy pointing to location of our last Munro - Meall Nan Tarmachan

  

Meall nan Tarmachan, Loch Tay 10/01/13

Hello! Welcome to Maddy and my blog documenting, largely in pictures, our attempt to climb Scotland's Munros. We hope that we make it up all of them one day but have no particular time scale or grand plan, our only intention is to always enjoy them.

Ptarmigan? No Grouse

Maddy having only been up one of them before (unfortunately not one I've done!), we're pretty much at the beginning, so on about the only day in Jan that it wasn't blowing a force 8 gale we headed to the Tarmachan Ridge, just north of Loch Tay.  

Maddy on top in the fog

  





Despite the promised clear(ish) skys the top was shrouded in cloud and a vicious wind was blowing. So, happy that we had conquered the one Munro on the ridge we headed home without completing the circuit.