Scotland

Day 2


Mountain Rescue


After a very very comfortable night in frodos house, we were looking forward to a nice walk to Ben Lui NNR.

After walking down a very long path, we were walking for about 3 hours, we stopped for some lunch.  We then decided we would attempt to walk up the mountain next to us.  I have no idea what is was called.  It was pretty steep, although it did level out in parts.  After 45 mins of walking, claire  was shattered (Claire - refused to go any further as it was stupid steep) and said she was not going on.  However, as we were not too far from the top I decided to go on.  I gave it everthing I had for 20 minutes, going as fast as humanly possible.  After, going over many ridges I was still not at the top.  I decided to call it quits about 60m from the top.  I was shattered , plus I did not like leaving claire on her own.

After meeting back up with claire, my legs had turned to jelly.  This was down to the sheer exhaustion i had  just made and not claires good looks :).  As we were heading down the long path we heard a vehicle coming up behind us. It was a 4x4 and I was really hoping they would give us a lift, and too my amazement they did! it was the local mountain rescue guys.  If they had been about 5 minutes earlier they would have had the shock of seeing cliare going for a wee in a bush.

The gave us a lift to about 500m from the campsite, this lift saved us about 3 hours. Thanks guys!  After getting back to the site we went on another little walk.  After a nice shower, we headed to the apache food hut to make the evening meal.