Chris's 50th
The route was up three munros in near Avimore (A’ Chailleach,Carn Dearg,Carn Sgulain) it it appeared that doing 1095m of acscent over 26km just after the shortest day of the year in winter conditions wasn't enough fo me, firstly i added in to the mold Chris who as you know has done 50 munros in the last year i have done about 15. Added to my preperation where lots of mince pies and cheese plus a weeks worth of sleeping on a coutch fo good mesure. still not content because of the daylight we needed to leave dundee at 7am just to have a chance of finishing in the day time, but seeing as the train journey the day before delayed us by three hours i was restricted to about 4 hrs sleep. yet even this wasn't enough for me, i turned out i had forgotern my boots and so i had to borrow chris's brand new winter boots, which where too heavy for me and too small for me. of course this adds to the usual excuses of being les fit over winter and not being quite so honed in the festive season, which translates nicely too i've drank too much beer.
So to summarise i started the day too haevy too bloated ill equiped out of shape and tierd, and with a companion far fitter than i. needless to say i ended the day in a much worse condition. as it turned out it was a really good day on the hills and all three munro's where enjoyable even if i wasn't really focusing on asthetics by the third, it was good to get up in the snow and it is always good to get compleatly exausted after a day in the hills so four days later i am almost ready to do it all again. i'll sugest you read Chris's Blog for a more detailed description on the route its quite a good read. but please bear in mind all of the added dificulties i included for myself.