BEINN EIGHE
Taken from Beinn Alligin, Beinn Eighe is the hill centre skyline, summit left hand as you look. Liathach is the hill on the right. Photo Colin Matheson.
7.0 miles 880 metres
Start Tuesday 14.13
Ruadh-stac Mor 15.33
Finish 16.22
Squares: yellow - changeover, red - finish, green - earlier leg start. Circles summits: green - this leg, red - done, purple - now a Munro but not in 1990. Map Colin Matheson
Time: Estimated 1.45 Actual 2.09
Ian writes:
This was a hard one. All that way in only one hour and a half. After taking the baton from John I was off like a shot only to come to a crawl on the oozing mud of a rapidly disappearing path.
Energy was failing me on the way up to the Coire Mhic Fhesrchair and the endless boulder slopes to the summit! The view was limitless to the far horizons. My spirit soared above the heights, and far to the west beyond the bejewelled pearly Minch lay the far Hebrides, dark and brooding, guarding the gateway to infinity.
On I sped at a cracking pace to descend down 'Ed's rake,' a miserable 1500 ft of life threatening boulders that Ed recommended as a “fast” descent.... a fast descent to hell more like. At last it was over and I returned to the mothership to see the throng luxuriating in the afternoon sun.
Peaks done 77 time taken 3 days 13 hours peaks to go 200
A tired Ian relaxing in the mothership
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