Continuing our club tradition stretching over 20 years, May Day is often the time to take a step off the beaten track, in a wee tent or a cosy bothy (before the midges awaken.....).
Watching deer from the front door, red squirrels on the track, gathering wood in the gloaming, good fires, and late-night craik. The world sometimes seeming, in these isolated spots, to be ours alone.
Steve M, Dolly and I began at a surprisingly easy spot, with grateful thanks to the estate who keep the place available for all hillgoers, on condition it is not named. Some hectic domestic circumstances meant that this year, we just made up the itinerary as we went along.
A high day in the Monadliath, and then in the evening, to the end of the trail, and a visit to General Wade's bothy.
Our best respects to the General, and a roaring fire was soon toasting our toes.
Geal Charn is on the General's doorstep. A breezy day upstairs as Dolly approached take-off speed !!
And finally, west to the Dark Mile..... although above Loch Arkaig, Meall na Teanga glittered in the sunshine.
ANDREW
