Munros this section :
Slioch
A' Chailleach
A' Chailleach summit. I had already decided 'no more' by this point... |
So, the last section, time to leave Kinlochewe with no hurry to come back, and it is raining of course, but slowly it stops, as I walk an easy ten km along a track. I've been a little worried about the next bit, 13km of planned route with no sign of a path, starting with climb of Fionn Bheinn. In fact the Munro is fine, a grassy hill, not too steep, even the weather holds off, though the summit is still in a cloud. Dropping my pack one km from the top helps too, and I get back down to collect it at 3.30, with only 7km of the day left this should be easy. I should be so lucky, rather I find my self struggling through truly awful, horrible bog, the rain returns, and my path is blocked by both deer fences and mountain streams swollen into substantial rivers I have no choice but to wade, one of them is waist deep...
Silver Bridge. |
The welcoming Ben Wyvis Hotel. |
Beauly is nice, well, the name does come from the French for 'nice place'. There is a Co-op, I decide to celebrate the end of the walk with a barbecue, many burgers ensue, and a few cans, and indeed a couple of beers at the campsite bar - I did say it was nice here! And that is it, the next day various forms of transport take me away from Scotland. And what can I say about this trip? Ugh, well I guess doing this sort of thing you do run the risk of the weather not being great, and it was mostly pretty terrible. This would happen when I clearly hadn't put enough thought into keeping things dry... Never mind, I did have some fun, saw some remarkable countryside, and that is thirty more Munros in the bag at least. Well over half way through them now!
Photos to go with this post can be found here.