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ation in and also booked the sleeper train yes yes arrogant belief but also i had a contingency plan if i was dissed and left out as it happens i was in again bugger i have in the past done several solo and several accompanied trips this was to be solo although day 1 was to be with a friend martin rye i had unfinished business from 2015 when the munro beinn fhada was off limits due to ice and snow that was not to be the case this year as it happens it was hot people apparently complained it was too hot are you fucking kidding me it was a bloody belter of a day you should have been here last year when it utterly pissed it down and rivers were not crossable without a lucky prayer and god on your side but i digress this is a theme that will recur anyway route submitted i ll forgive roger for asking for a fwa where i would never consider a fwa and also a fwa to my fwa he s a great bloke and knows my adjusted route was just to placate the h s needs no way on god s earth i was doing any of that unless it was truly the apocalypse christ i still haven t started moving rapidly on with everything in place and my new atom 40 l pack in outrageous colours ready to go i headed to euston to meet up with martin and the sleeper train oh yes about the teeth ffs 4 days before the off i had a really painful tooth luckily my friend is a dentist although he still makes me pay for treatment which seems out of order just sayin myles but anyway i was at the dentist twice with raging agonies that are similar to man flu in their severity the worst bit was the antibiotics that cause vomiting if mixed with alcohol it meant i couldn t realistically drink any alcohol until the 1st evening in shiel bridge so the journey up was to be a dry event we met a few chaps at the euston tap sinking many bevvies as a mourned into my diet coke the train was boarded the buffet car full already of fucking people not on the tgoc hogging all the bloody seats with their great fat arses fuck it i bought some more coke and went to my lie down bunk i couldn t drink anyway so special mention to having en suite toilet and shower in your personal cabin oh yeeeesss and then all of a sudden it was the next morning went down to breakfast cos i was in posh section and had a chat with andy pinkard for a while then it was back to the room grab bag do a paranoia check of literally everywhere and hop off the train to meet martin who had travelled up in seated cattle class never again he said a couple of breakfast window train views the weather forecast was looking great not having his own personal toilet he used one in the station and then outside to meet lindsay i haven t mentioned lindsay however we were intending to catch a bus about 13 50 to shiel bridge then lindsay mentioned that she had driven up and so the day before we had arranged to cadge a lift thus we met up stashed our stuff in her car and all went off for a breakfast wander around fort william and then later a slow sightseeing drive to shiel bridge now we will come back to the loss of photos story at a later far more ranting state not in this episode but i took a zillion images most of which were lost in a later incident so sadly only a minority of the 1st 10 days that i had managed to upload are still available back to the car for the road trip and lindsay s beaver fell out time to introduce dave later to be knighted but that s for this evening oh and lindsay s sat nav the return journey on route a stop off at spean bridge command monument we stopped a few more times on the way to the hotel at shiel bridge martin i were actually in the yha 4 km away but thanks to our fine chauffeur we got a lift there and back in the evening and then wow to the hotel start point the next morning as the hotel was not ready when we got there we also popped up the road to the café for afternoon tea pm tea in the sun then back to the yha as yha s goes this was ok good staff and spectacular views across to the hotel side of the loch a clean up and then lindsay picked us up to go back to the pub for a beer or 2 and a meal also pierre bloody miracle man was going to be there pierre and i had discussed this adventure for a while he would see where he could get to and we would meet at key points primarily fort augustus kingussie the feshie bothy braemar lochcallater tarfside nwb montrose if you are unaware of pierre s last 12 months and you are on facebook this is just one of his posts but the one that explains oh so much pierre s journey so pub it was sadly all the pictures of this evening well most of them are gone oh and saskia did ask me if i was the legend andrew walker obviously she is now my favourite person on the tgoc bar none i reckon more infamous than legend but i ll take that it was a great evening an evening during which dave the beaver was knighted as sir dave by the reverend david albon got a lift back to the yha with lindsay whilst attempting to drop pierre off at the campsite not that he was 100 sure where it was by then so our route involved a track turning round and then going the right way then back to hostel lindsay was going to pick us up in the morning to go to the start point it was destiny and so we went to sleep land officially day 1 shiel bridge to alltbiethe yha via beinn fhada munro 1 23 6km 1335m oh and the music it s compulsory it was signed out and ready to go sadly many of these early pictures were lost in the great phone k up on day 10 but pierre headed off south hero and martin lindsay and myself headed ne ish it was early and already the day was getting hot we were going high it was going to be a tough day we passed the shop and where lindsay had pondered getting a fleece she wouldn t want the previous day as luck would have it it was shut god forbid her pack was big enough anyway dave was perched on the outside i think he was navigating actually was he even there had he gone with pierre we parted company with lindsay a bit past morvich as she was heading up gleann lichd and we were bound for abhainn chonaig gleann choinnechain and then the climb up to beinn fhada all i can say is this was a lot further than i remembered ok last time was on my 10th and we never made the top due to snow and ice it was going to go this time we stopped a few times on route to rest feet and to get water it was a ing hot day already and we would hit the top at the hottest part not many pics here sadly but i still have a few from the summit the pictures won t do it justice as they were stunning probably some of the best 360 views i have seen here they are in a random order as some are mine that had been uploaded to fb and some are martin s as i say enjoy what there is and next time i am not doing this route i mention this having been to bill s 79th birthday and fallen and broken 2 ribs along the edge of lochcallater despite the heat it was quite windy on the summit so we started to head along the ridge weirdly at times because of the shape you can catch glimpses of alltbeithe hostel but for about 2½ hrs it never actually gets any bloody nearer what i will say is that this is an absolute beaut of a route in good weather well worth putting on day 1 of your tgoc somewhere past sgurr a dubh doire we bumped into jotaro and chris i hope his name is chris as i walked all of day 3 with him for much of this there is a reasonably visible track although not always distinct the final descent down to the end of the gleann lichd track and to the footbridge is totally off piste it would be a lot less fun in clag as we got to the bridge before the hostel we bumped into tony and lee lee was not having a good day after a chat and a check we headed to the hostel i was booked in but martin was heading further up the glen as we had different plans for tomorrow i cannot remember the name of the guy running the hostel but he was a good chap and at the time of running rushed off his feet so i bought 2 bottles of coke to drink and then waited to book in martin headed off and eventually i booked in and moved my stuff into the bunkhouse at the rear it was going to be heaving tonight luckily i had a meal to cook on my stove as there was no food for sale ohhhhh for the wonderful hannah and her scones and soup and tea and coffee i seem to remember it was quite a good night not that good but good gave a chap from the us some rehydration tabs as he was looking well peaky imho he had mild heat stroke he seemed better by the next morning and made it to cougie ok when it s hot get a hat on and most importantly sunscreen and lots of water there was some concern about jackie clark who finally turned up around 22 00 after a very slow day up gleann lichd not much snoring unless i did so it was to be a reasonably early start tomorrow as i had a plan to go high day 2 alltbiethe yha to cougie via not the intended route 25 3km 580m and so with no bloody pictures to talk of today here i was heading down the track to athnamuloch it s a bit of a fag of a walk but i walked much of it to the bridge with a fine chap from the usa i think it was tyler i had written down a list of all the names as notes on my phone so i would remember them when the time came to do the blog phone the one in a sodding mystery location near dubh loch he stopped at the bridge and i bumbled over stopping for a chat with a young lad about 20min who was waiting to go up to camban bothy as part of the work party eventually off i toddled looking for a path but then giving up and just heading across the rufty tufty to find the track at the far side it was my intended route to eventually go up to carn a choire ghairbh and then follow the river down to the track and thus to cougie a nice track out despite the heat and the section of collapsed road that involved a bit of bog however when i eventually got out to the cut off point there were 2 things blatantly obvious the route over to the start of the climb was tufty grass and a total bog all the way so this was going to be bloody hard work and wet foot to get to more importantly though it was also obvious from looking that what had appeared as a steep climb up was in fact a really overgrown wet green coloured gorge the sort of thing that totally knackers you until the point that you slip and die as you can see from the map i did ponder it and even ventured into the wet land of misery twice eventually however i had stern words with myself it was going to be a pain in the arse maybe worse and i wanted to get to cougie as i had a bed and a meal waiting there with common sense prevailing a rare thing i returned up the track to where i had come across that was going to be 6km and 1¾ hrs of my life that i would never get back and so i trudged in heat stopping for water where possible all the way back and along the track to the cougie cut off also somehow wandering up the track i say track it s a narrow somewhat overgrown track i totally missed the small bridge across and ended up going up what seemed like a never ending track it was going in roughly the right direction and i could have cut off right but i thought bugger it let s see where it goes hoping it wouldn t end up at some horrid barbed wire fence and a a wade through a river well as luck would have it all was well and i arrived at the main track to cougie it was still ing hot and when i eventually got to loch nan gillean i stopped for water not in the loch but in the little feeder stream this must be the place where all the sodding midges were waiting because by the time i had the water and was back to my rucksack the annoying little bastards were out nibbling away i chucked the water down my neck pack on and went up the track at pace to find some breeze about 50m did it than god and they all ed off to annoy someone else why someone can t make a midge bomb and send it to russia i don t know and then as if by magic i was at the wonderful oasis of utter loveliness that is cougie i hadn t been here since 2017 when mel s dad brian was still alive they have had a tough few years over covid but it was great to be back and see smiling faces and as ever they did us proud sadly no pictures of the evening here which is a shame if anyone has any please send them too me to add it was a lovely evening great company as ever good food and they had beer plus my mini parcel and that is all i am going to write mainly because i have forgotten anything else and i am still sad at the loss of all those pictures but hehho tomorrow is another day and i was headed to fort augustus yep you are correct by the end of day 3 i would still have not used a tent by andrew w 19 56 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom tgoc 2020 gear sites backpacking light flat cat gear zpacks gossamer gear nordic outdoor kit shack buffs tees etc clam cleats for pegs bearpaw wilderness designs my ranting blog music rants index 2023 1 august 1 tgoc 2023 shiel bridge to kinabber links part 1 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