Andy Heald - 102692

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Date : 11/01/2025

Duration : 5-8 hours

Style : Solo

Type : Quality Mountain Day (QMD)

Weather : Cloudy - poor visibility

Wind : Moderate wind

Camping Type : N/A

Nights Camping : 0

Mountains : Beinn Ime Beinn Narnain

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Description

Beinn Narnain & Ime from Arrochar alone. The spell of good weather ended the previous day & today was in cloud throughout. Up by the old tramway which was icy, and further up an ice runnel required crampons. As I stopped on a ledge to put them on, a large novice aided by a friend, struggled without them, directly above me. I thought it better to shuffle out of their fall line.
From Narnain to a busy Ime & down, with ice in my eyes. Even the zigzags down below the Buttermilk Burn were icy & maybe they were one place where microspikes would have been good.

Area : Loch Fyne to Loch Long (Beinn an Lochain)

South of the A83 as far as Dunoon and sandwiched in between Loch Fyne and Loch Long are a number of peaks, none of which qualify for Munro status. The southern half of the Arrochar Alps includes Beinn an Lochain, which at 901m was wrongly included in Sir Hugh Munro’s original list of 3000ft peaks in Scotland. The mountains list contains all peaks above 600m.

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