Being the
English Holiday Weekend and a good forecast we were up early to beat
the crowds and were on the hill before 8. After the short walk-in
past Lagangarbh and a lot of dredging the memory banks we duly
arrived at the base of the route just in time for the cloud sheet to
break up and the promised sun to come out. Having not done any real
scrambling since An Teallach last May we took it very slowly until we
got tuned into being on rock again. The first section was as I
remembered, not very hard but no place for a slip. Enjoying the views
of the Rannoch Wall (and wondering how I ever climbed on it) we made
good progress to the upper section, which has some more technical
moves but feels quite safe.
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| Starting out... |
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| Looking up to the Rannoch Wall |
Route soon
over we traversed around onto Crowberry Ridge and did the top section
of that to finish on the Tower. A short easy scramble then got us to
the main summit well before 11, so it was still almost deserted.
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| Descending Crowberry Tower |
Now the
legwork began for the traverse of the three tops (I don’t hold with
all this “revising” business). As always this was very pleasant,
although looking towards Bidean we couldn’t help the nagging doubt
that we had maybe quit the skis a week too soon. A few standing
glissades on the way down had to do, complete with some largely
unsuccessful but very amusing attempts at jump turns.
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| Time for walkies... |
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| The southern two Tops, and Bidean back right looking temptingly snowy |
A quick yomp
down the Lairig Gartain got us back to the car nice and early, which
allowed plenty of time for a celebratory stop at the Clachaig on the
way back to the hut to catch up with the rest of the meet.
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