Quoted message said:I was ready to do a hill after the Saturday night 70th Birthday
Celebration for Hamish Brown and gathering of many Marylin Hall of
famers
Quoted message said:(and me ...)
Time for my Corbett number 200, Ben Enaiglair. Parked at Braemore
Junction
Quoted message said:and noted activity in front of the cottage, putting stuff in a car.
Took
Quoted message said:the very boggy path marked along the hill side. Follows a reasonable
line,
Quoted message said:but very boggy. (did I mention it is pretty boggy?).
Also very boggy when we did it last year, but the hill itself was
excellent with a fine cap of snow on it and superb views of An
Teallach as you countour round to the back of the hill.
Quoted message said:The path crosses the Home Loch at its inflow, not the outflow and
meets a
Quoted message said:recently bulldozed new track. It was quick walking to the east
bealach,
Quoted message said:with the approaching storm getting closer and closer. A fast walk up
the
Quoted message said:ridge and on top in only 1 hr 30 min (guidebook time 2hr 30 min, I
must be
Quoted message said:fit!). just managed to capture a panorama before the clag came in.
Number 200 in the bag, only 19 left ...
Brilliant Rob, maybe a finish in 2005 !
{ Snip }
Quoted message said:If he was about to shout at me for being on the track, but always
well
Quoted message said:away from any occupied buildings, then that is really too much!
Seems they are pretty sensitive about 'their' forest ...
Sounds like he was really going for the "intimidation" approach.
Probably best just to do what you did and avoid the confrontation,
specially as the day was complete for you. I must admit though that
we did follow the Guide book and leave the same route as we went in,
;-)
cheers
Graham