Munros

We’ve had a relaxing day driving south- though there was still no parking space at Glenfinnan so yet again I couldn’t walk down to the monument. How many B..... Harry Potter trains pass in a day?!

I made a collage of some of the Munros we saw this trip. (Munros are Scottish mountains over 3000ft with either a certain distance between them, or at least 500 ft drop, named after the first chap who classified them but who died before he completed them all. When we started climbing them there were 277 but by the time we ‘compleated’ there were 284. The number fluctuates according to how SMC changes the classifification - I think there are 282 at the moment.). Over 6000 have compleated now and I was 4113 16 years ago. It’s a popular activity/obsession - it is a great way to see parts the country inaccessible unless you walk many miles in some cases.

From top left they are, working anti-clockwise -

Beinn Dorain
The Aonach Eagach
Slioch
An Teallach
Ben Nevis
Buachaille Etive Mòr

The most challenging was Aonach Eagach, a scary ridge above Glen Coe, though An Teallach might have scared me more had it not been in cloud - when they parted at our lunch stop and I looked down I could see a loch 1000 ft straight below. I couldn’t finish my sandwich).

Now we are pitched up on Loch Earn and have had a pleasant walk along the old railway line, now a cycle track.

Our food is running out. It’s an onion omelette tonight.