I visited the Dalwhinnie area last year, where a walk up to Creag Meagaidh didn’t happen due to terrible weather.
Well, this year (the 3rd weekend of March) it didn’t quite happen either, with a lack of fitness seeing me only get as far as the ‘window’ after a c. 3.5 to 4 mile walk in. I didn’t quite make the ‘tops’ or walk up the Munroe itself (or indeed the other two Munroes of Stob Poite Coire Ardair and Càrn Liath ). I was done in, alas, despite the weather being unexpectedly decent (ish) this time around.
It was pretty windy, with snow lying near the top of the window. But that would have been fine if I hadn’t run out of steam at that point. It was a great walk in, though, with fantastic views, and the lochan (lochan coire ardair ) is wonderful. A great place to sit and snack before we walked back down to the car park.
On either side of the Creag Meaidh Saturday jaunt we had good weather for walking on the Friday and Sunday in different combinations of the eight mates who were with me at the Raeburn mountaineering hut for the weekend. Ali, who had organised the trip again had to pull out sadly due a calamity for his wife when she broke her collarbone while skiing just before we were due to head up to Scoland. Ouch. And ouch, emotionally for Ali!
I’ll let the photos tell the rest of the tale of this trip.
A missing photo I couldn’t grab in time was the Eagle (oh yes) that took flight from the cairn on Creag na Doire Duibhe above Loch Coldair (near the hut) that Jeff and I walked up to on Sunday. We rounded the small summit to see it take flight with what looked like one powerful beat of its enormous wings. It was a moment indeed to see it do so, and at eye level, about 2 metres from where I stood.
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