Cycle 5.3km, 100m. Walk 10km, 940m. Cycle 5.3km. 7.20am to 12.30pm
It didn`t feel like a quality mountain day despite the white out on the summit ridge and struggling to stand up at the summit cairn. I cycled in to Lochan na h-Earba (8.15am). It was good to see Ardverikie Wall again. The wind was howling through the glen and I couldn`t see the summit ridge. Got up to the col, put on more layers before heading steeply up onto the ridge. A bit of compass work eventually took me to the summit which I had to fight to actually get to! There was no way I was going back along the ridge into the wind so I dropped off north-west and made the most of any snow fields to loose as much height as possible before cutting across to the track again. By the time I was back on the track the cloud was off the summit ridge. This was a cleaning up of a Munro I`d missed due to bad weather; not very satisfying in it`s self.
Area :
Loch Treig to Loch Ericht (Ben Alder)
Often referred to as the Central Highlands, this area covers the mountains between Loch Treig, Loch Ericht and Loch Laggan. Access is commonly from the A86 or the Corrour Halt stop on the West Highland Railway. An impressive fourteen Munros are scattered across this area (four of which are over 1100m), and included in the mountains list are all of the peaks above 600m. Ben Alder is often thought of as one of the more remote mountains in Scotland and its vast high plateau sits in contrast to the ridge created by Beinn Bheoil. Peaks to the east of Loch Ericht are listed in the East Highlands region.
