Scotland equaled our last and highest peak, Ben Nevis. We switched our days around to try and hit the driest walking days, but in this climate, you never know!
Ben Nevis is estimated to be a 7-9 hr walk, so we got up at 6am, to set off super early, in order to get up to the top and back again in a normal time.
Again, there was instant regret at the bottom of the mountain….who’s mad idea was it to do these three peaks anyway?!
All three of the walks have been vastly different in style, BN was the most gradual of the three, but the highest and longest by 300m in altitude and about 9kms longer. They all had one thing in common, the tops was going to be in fog and there would be no view to speak of.
The weather held out fairly well for our walk to the peak of Ben, we had pretty good visibility most of the way up and took advantage of the vistas at every opportunity (read that as, we were knackered and stopped a lot, and took in the views!)
As we hit the scrabbly section, the fog descended in (or maybe we ascended into the fog?).
The scrabble to the peak was a bit rude, as it was long and difficult. However, we made it. It was super cold up there, so we gobbled down our sandwiches and hightailed it back down the hill.
I find going down harder than going up, so at this point I wasn’t exactly elated that we’d completed our three peaks, because we still had to get off our third peak…..
It was much quicker going down than going up, however both of us had severe jelly legs and lead feet that just didn’t seem to want to lift! There were no spectacular stumbles/falls and no need to visit the medical centre. First point of call down was a much needed loo break.
The walk took us just under 7.5 hours and covered 17.5 kms to a height of 1345m. It was enough!
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