General fitness, health and nutrition · Public discussion

Ben Rinnes / Corryhabbie Hill

Started by Graham Ingram · · Last activity · 5 posts · 487 views

Thread details

What we know about this thread

Original section
General fitness, health and nutrition
Published
3 April 2004
Last activity
5 April 2004
Original author
Graham Ingram
Posts
5
Discussion status
Public discussion
Total views
487
Views / 30 days
0

The navigation and discussion metadata provide context. Posts remain in their original chronological order.

Showing posts 1–5 of 5
Posts remain in their original chronological order.

Text size
  1. Set off up north and East in the hope of getting a break in
    an awful forecast and struck lucky. Not a drop of rain all
    day, although extremely windy throughout. we climbed
    Corryhabbie Hill first from the farm at Ellivreid and did
    the hill exactly as the Corbett book, up over Hill of
    Achmore and on to Muckle Lapprach with an easy hop to the
    circular cairn round the trig point which sports a very
    nice cast iron hat. A quick and direct descent took us back
    to the car in just a fraction over 2 hours. A very short
    drive round the corner and we took the track that leads
    directly to the top of Ben Rinnes, given the clear
    visibility and the width of the track we left rucksacks and
    everything else except a map, compass and 1/2 ltr of water.
    Up and down in 1 hour 15 minutes in spite of a very fierce
    wind. Back home to Crieff by 4 pm, bone dry and 2 Corbetts,
    not a bad days walk.

    --
    Cheers
    Graham

    "Where the eagles cry, On a mountain high"

    284/284 83/219

    Return email ~ REMOVE to reply

  2. I think you were lucky with the weather Graham, I was at Loch
    Laggan doing the Beinn a'Chlachair Munros and it was absolutely
    sodden. That's the wettest I've been in a while! My jacket stood
    up well but my bottom half was soaked. I put on my gaiters and
    then waterproof trousers a tad late, all that accumulated water
    simply ran into my boots. Lots of wind as well. An all round
    mean day, but successful :-)

    KRO

  3. In article said:

    I think you were lucky with the weather Graham


    Skill?

    I was in Torridon, see new trip report. only had rain for 2
    hours, then some light showers. but no view from the second
    peak. Given I have only 3 Corbetts left to do below the
    Great Glen, I didn't have much choice 8-(

    Did Ben Rinnes on a very windy day as well. The SMT is
    spending income from guidebooks to support improving
    the upper part of the path. Not sure if the work had
    started yet?

    Rob

  4. "Rob Milne" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    In article <[email hidden]>,

    (KRO) said:

    I think you were lucky with the weather Graham

    Quoted message said:

    Skill?

    What's skill go to do with it? It was a group of hills I
    wanted to do! I think I was unlucky with the weather as it
    hosed down all day. Not to say I didn't enjoy it mind :-)

    Quoted message said:


    I was in Torridon, see new trip report. only had rain for
    2 hours, then some light showers. but no view from the
    second peak. Given I have only 3 Corbetts left to do below
    the Great Glen, I didn't have much choice 8-(

    I've read your report, I had the boulder hopping on Beinn
    a'Chlachair and Geal Charn, just the right size to disrupt
    any attempt at a stride! Add in some wet and a howling wind,
    and you've got step, stumble, slip, step, slip, curse :-)

    KRO

  5. "Rob Milne" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:


    Did Ben Rinnes on a very windy day as well. The SMT is
    spending


    income

    Quoted message said:

    from guidebooks to support improving the upper part of the
    path. Not


    sure

    Quoted message said:

    if the work had started yet?

    Rob the path is in very good condition and looks like quite
    recent work all the way over the saddle to the base of the
    last pull to the summit tors. It is hardly a challenging
    hill but compensated for by ease of access and good views
    from the top

    Cheers Graham

Active in the last 60 minutes

Active in this thread

0 users · 0 guests ·0 bots ·0 total

No signed-in users are active right now.

No known search crawlers active right now.