DATE 30/06/16
ACTIVITY
Hill Walking and Scrambling
REGION
Scotland
AREA
Lochaber
DESCRIPTION OF ROUTE:
Ben Nevis Ledge route, Decent CMD route.
The weather was very wet today I have a relaxed start to the day and left the car at 13:30pm. It took 2hrs to walk up to the CIC hut and then across to the bottom of the ledge route.
I was almost instantly in cloud as soon as I started the scramble it was raining hard on and off all day and I didn’t drop below the cloud until I was half way down my decent. The route was great some parts where challenging the wet but before I knew it I was on the summit plateau, nav was a little tricky at this point as the wind was strong enough to push you off bearing, but made a line for the tourist track and then up to the summit. I then made my decent down towards the CMD route and followed this around back down to the North face track. I got back to the car just after 20:30pm. Was a great walk challenging at times but gave me a chance to practice my nav and had been a while since I had been out in wet and windy conditions.
Area :
Ben Nevis (Fort William To Loch Leven)
This area covers the mountains between Fort William, Loch Leven (to the south) and Loch Treig (to the east). The area includes Ben Nevis and Carn Mor Dearg, The Mamores, The Aonachs and The Grey Corries. An impressive 20 Munros are split equally by Glen Nevis and the waters of Abhainn Rath. Relatively accessible from the A82, these mountains hold some classic walking and climbing routes such as The Ring of Steall in the Mamores and Point Five Gully on Ben Nevis. Includes all major peaks above 600m.
