The weather changed dramatically overnight.
The camping area was relatively protected but it was very very cold.
We managed a whole 18kms that day. It was extremely difficult to keep your bike upright and forward momentum was an added bonus.
We headed out of town past the white painted housesand headed for Kinlochewe.
A few miles up the road we noticed about a dozen cars parked on the side of the road. As we got closer we noticed a couple preparing to do something so we pulled up and had a chat to them.
They were about to head out up the hill to our left. It rose almost vertically for 1000 metres. There is a thing in Scotland calld a Munro, A Munro is defined as a mountain in Scotland with a height over 3,000 feet (914.4 m), and which is on the Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC) official list of Munros; there is no explicit topographical prominence requirement. The best known Munro is Ben Nevis (Beinn Nibheis), the highest mountain in the British Isles at 4,413 feet (1,345 m).
"Munro bagging" is the activity of climbing all 282 of the listed Munros. As of 2 July 2020, 6,768 people had reported completing a round. The first continuous round was completed by Hamish Brown in 1974, whilst the record for the fastest continuous round is currently held by Donnie Campbell, who completed a round in just under 32 days in September 2020. |