The Cuillin Ridge

We know that we haven't updated the blog for a while, but we have been busy.

1st July: Joe's Birthday: For Joes Birthday we had a lie in and walked up only one hill.  (Beinn Sgritheall) then drove to 'Kyle of Lochalsh for some Pub food.

2nd July: We drove to Glen Carron and walked 6 Munros (including number 284, the one that used to be a Munro.) We walked from Craig over the following hills. 

-Bidean a Choire Sheasgaich

-Lurg Mhor

-Sgurr Chonnich

-Sgurr a'Chaorachain

-Moruisg

-Maoile Lunndaidh

3rd July: We walked over the 3 hills on the 'other' side of Glen Carron. with grat views of the Torridons. 

4th July: We planned a short day in preparation for the Cullin Ridge Traverse so we walked up Beinn Fhada (or Ben Attow) and  A'Ghlas-bheinn.

5th July: The Cullin Traverse- This was a day we were really looking forward to that would take in 11 Munros, and it didn't let us down. 

We left our van, at the south side of the ridge early and swiftly walked up to the top of the first munro (sgurr nan

Eag, we were greeted by a beautiful cloud inversion around the whole ridge and clear alpine blue skies. 

Last week in Kintail we had the pleasure of meeting 'Mike Royal' and discovered that he was on a an adventure of his own. He set of from his home in Snowdonia in April and was walking up every 3000ft peak in the Wales, England and Scotland, and cycleing between them, self supported. He mentioned that he was struggling to find climb the Inn Pin on the Cullin Ridge (2 failed attempts). We agreed to help in out by letting him use our ropes for the climb and abseil. It was great to shared at least one mountain with such a like-minded person.

We reached the Inaccessible Pinnacle by around 11am where we met Mike with 2 litres of water he had kindly carried up for us. 

The weather was great until the last 2 Munros (Sgurr Alastair an Sgurr nan Gillian). 

What a great day!! 

6th of July: We had another lie-in today parked by the public toilets in Kyle of Lochalsh where we were hoping to find showers (after a tip off) we found the showers but they were locked. :-( It is midday as I write this and we are still unsure what we are going to do today. With the 11 Munros we did yesterday we now only have 52 left to do! So we may just have a rest day today.