Ben Fhada -Glencoe
A superb day. Sunburnt face the day after. Parked up, walked up and then climbed linking series of snow gullies to the summit. Stripped to thermal tshirt till the summit.
Brilliant views of Bidean ridges and Aeanich Eagach. The ski mountain and Nevis had summit covered in cloud. Ambled up and down the ridge, crampons on for the 3nd half. Beautiful big cornices and scooped snow. Spoke to the only other walker who said the step before the munro summit was not doable as a traverse without a rope.
So I went as far as I could and decided that the traverse below and after the step was dodgy with crusty topped snow with very slidey snow for 1-2ft underneath.
Spent an hr on the top watching climbers around on various gullies and butresses. So still I could hear people on both ridges and the twin munros east of me. Some folk abbing or down climbing a headwall gully above the hidden valley.
Slid and slimed down the descent just before the Fhada top beside the river gully and then bottomed out at the path. Went to take the last photo and realised my digital camera was gone.
A small blck bag clipped to my rucksac waist belt, doh.
It's a Kodak CX7310 in a black snap link shut bag with a GB mem card. Luckily I backed up the card with 1500 photos on it last week. I have digital camcorder footage of today as well.
Brilliant views of Bidean ridges and Aeanich Eagach. The ski mountain and Nevis had summit covered in cloud. Ambled up and down the ridge, crampons on for the 3nd half. Beautiful big cornices and scooped snow. Spoke to the only other walker who said the step before the munro summit was not doable as a traverse without a rope.
So I went as far as I could and decided that the traverse below and after the step was dodgy with crusty topped snow with very slidey snow for 1-2ft underneath.
Spent an hr on the top watching climbers around on various gullies and butresses. So still I could hear people on both ridges and the twin munros east of me. Some folk abbing or down climbing a headwall gully above the hidden valley.
Slid and slimed down the descent just before the Fhada top beside the river gully and then bottomed out at the path. Went to take the last photo and realised my digital camera was gone.
A small blck bag clipped to my rucksac waist belt, doh.
It's a Kodak CX7310 in a black snap link shut bag with a GB mem card. Luckily I backed up the card with 1500 photos on it last week. I have digital camcorder footage of today as well.
posted by Nick at 9:51 AM
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