THE GOAL

Starting on 17th May 2012 Joe Mann and Peter Holder will attempt to walk to the top of all the Scottish Munros. There are 283 of them!





Sunday, 10 June 2012

Glen Coe and the Olympic Torch


When we planned this trip we originally wanted to see how fast we could 'do' all the Munros, but then we realized that we could have way more fun if we took a little bit longer over them, hence why we have a 60 day schedule. Yesterday, proved that our decision to take our time was a good one. Yesterday morning we drove to Fort William to buy more food. (£100 of pure Carbohydrates and sugar!). As we were driving back through Glen Coe village we noticed an unusually large crowd of people lining the streets, we stopped to to have a nosey, It turns out that the Olympic torch was passing through, so we scraped our plans for that day and decided to be tourists and watch the torch go by. (its not every day you can see the Olympic torch) In the evening we managed to nip up 3 more Munroes west of Loch Etive (Sgor na h-Ulaidh, Beinn Fhionnlaidh, Beinn Sgulaird) getting back to our van at about midnight. We were greeted on the top of Beinn Sgulairdby an amazing cloud inversion at sunset, (sorry no photos) On Friday we had pleased that the weather forecast was wrong an we had a good day starting on Bidien Nam Bian and finishing on the Buchaille.

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