Strathfarrar Access

Finally made it back on line after two months of crashes, XP instals, new hard drives, housemove and
numerous Munros! I had to sit and watch the newsgroup via Google without being able to get my
tuppence worth in..........

And to remain on topic, I've just come off the phone to the gatekeepers at Inchmore regarding gate
access, it's quite simple really, the glen is now closed to cars until next year! The reasons why
escape me. So with accomodation already booked for Inverness on Friday night, it's back to the
books, maps etc and work out something else, I see a group of Munros to the north of Loch
Mullardoch, but to be honest I think it's the wrong time of year for a minimum 10 hour walk. Watch
this space.......

KRO

"KRO" <KRO@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> Finally made it back on line after two months of crashes, XP instals, new hard drives, housemove
> and numerous Munros! I had to sit and watch the newsgroup via Google without being able to get my
> tuppence worth in..........

Just curious - if you were on Google, why not post from there?

--
Bob Mannix (anti-spam is as easy as 1-2-3 - not)

KRO wrote:

> but to be honest I think it's the wrong time of year for a minimum 10 hour walk.

Why's that? GPS, torch, little bit of night nav. It could be fun.

But If you start the walk nearly one hour before dawn you'll have just enough light for the
whole walk.

At Inverness on Saturday there'll be 8 hours 33 minutes of daylight between sunrise and sunset. If
you add 42 minutes of civil twilight at each end of that, you'll have exactly 9 hours 57 minutes of
useable daylight.

Sunrise at Inverness on Saturday is 7:43am, sunset at 4:16pm. Start your walk at 7:01am.

Paul
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In article <bodqgo$sre$1@sparta.btinternet.com>, KRO@btinternet.com (KRO)
wrote:

> I see a group of Munros to the north of Loch Mullardoch, but to be honest I think it's the wrong
> time of year for a minimum 10 hour walk.
THE way to do Mullardoch is to arrange for a lift from the local boat to the cottage at the far
end of the loch. Then do the traverse west to east. This not only shortens the time needed, but
avoids the very horrible path along the loch side. But for winter, you are probably better off
driving the few more miles down to Glen Affric, or do some of the Corbetts that are along the east
side of the range.

cheers, Rob

"Bob Mannix" <b1o2b3.mannix@rl.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> Just curious - if you were on Google, why not post from there?
> --
> Bob Mannix (anti-spam is as easy as 1-2-3 - not)

er, very good point, I've just looked at Google newsgroups and it's *not* a subscription
service. Woops.

KRO

"Paul Saunders" <pvs1@wildwales.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> KRO wrote:
>
> > but to be honest I think it's the wrong time of year for a minimum 10 hour walk.
>
> Why's that? GPS, torch, little bit of night nav. It could be fun.
>
It's just something that, to be honest, I don't enjoy. A bit like tomatoes, I don't know why I don't
like them, I just don't. We're all different. I could walk in the dark if I had to, it's not
something I'd plan on doing.

> But If you start the walk nearly one hour before dawn you'll have just enough light for the
> whole walk.
>
> At Inverness on Saturday there'll be 8 hours 33 minutes of daylight between sunrise and sunset. If
> you add 42 minutes of civil twilight at each end of that, you'll have exactly 9 hours 57 minutes
> of useable daylight.
>
> Sunrise at Inverness on Saturday is 7:43am, sunset at 4:16pm. Start your walk at 7:01am.
>
Thanks for the above sunset/sunrise/daylight times Paul, I'll refer to them when making my
decision tomorrow.

KRO
P.S. Like the photos on the website.

"Rob Milne" <rmilne@ciREMOVEx.co.uk> wrote in message
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> In article <bodqgo$sre$1@sparta.btinternet.com>, KRO@btinternet.com (KRO) wrote:

> THE way to do Mullardoch is to arrange for a lift from the local boat to the cottage at the far
> end of the loch. Then do the traverse west to east. This not only shortens the time needed, but
> avoids the very horrible path along the loch side.

I tried that, they've stopped the boat trips/runs for the winter. I did the traverse east to west
then back along that "very horrible path", which quite frankly isn't worth the ink on the OS map! A
pity because, for me the walk back put a dampener on the day, the traverse to the west was
excellent, made better due to very good vis for about 3/4 of the day, the Torridon hills being very
much in evidence along with the Cuillins. It took 9 hours exactly.

> But for winter, you are probably better off driving the few more miles down to Glen Affric, or do
> some of the Corbetts that are along the east side of the range.
>
Corbetts? Good god man, I've enough on my plate with Munros without starting another lot :-) In the
end the only thing winterish about yesterday was the daylight hours, it was gale force on the tops
but that's not particulary exclusive to winter.

KRO

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 13:38 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
rmilne@ciREMOVEx.co.uk (Rob Milne) wrote:

>In article <bodqgo$sre$1@sparta.btinternet.com>, KRO@btinternet.com (KRO) wrote:
>
>> I see a group of Munros to the north of Loch Mullardoch, but to be honest I think it's the wrong
>> time of year for a minimum 10 hour walk.
>THE way to do Mullardoch is to arrange for a lift from the local boat to the cottage at the far
>end of the loch. Then do the traverse west to east. This not only shortens the time needed, but
>avoids the very horrible path along the loch side. But for winter, you are probably better off
>driving the few more miles down to Glen Affric, or do some of the Corbetts that are along the east
>side of the range.

Enjoy the area...

Do a couple from Elchaig or as a cross country backpack, and then in another year do Lapaich and
Creag Dubh... No need to hurry.

Richard Webb