The start of the easter break, and after going out for the night i was off to scotland the next day with "adventure and expo"- the plymouth uni club for doing all that sorta that sorta thing.
7 am start on the bus- pretty damn tired. And tried to sleep on the bus- a mini bus trip from plymouth to fort william in scotaland....not the most comfortable, but not as bad as i thought either.
The first night we spent camping out, a pint or two in the pub and everybody seemed fairly tired and wanting to get to bed.
Slept well and then the next day on a walk in the valleys around fort william, absoulotly amazing scenery up there. We got up past the snow line and it got a little harder due to sliping and sliding a bit- generally unused to walking in snow...we decided that day not to go on but to return back and get into the bunk house.
For a week or so we stayed at the bunk house going walking each day up into the mountains.
My thermos flash diddnt work so plans of taking hot chocolate up mountains were scrapped, on a couple of the days one guy brought along a thermos flash of coffee and was sharing that about which went down well. One of the days we did somthing called "the ring of steel"- a series of "monroe's" (mountains in scotaland over a certain hight) were there was some walking along ridges- alot of fun.
On the last day we went up ben nevis- the highest mountain in the uk, quite hard work as we took a short cut up a quite steep gully using the ice axes and crampons. At the top the wind was blowing strong and it was hard to see anything as it was all completly white. We had lunch in the hut up there and then went on our way, we got in another peak- although took a while to get back from that one- which included more uphill slogs until we could go down. Some brilliant views up the top.
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