Comments on: Days Like This, No 14: Travellers and the Cluanie Ridge http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/05/days-like-this-no-14-travellers-and-the-cluanie-ridge/ ...and a few more reasons for climbing mountains Sun, 21 Feb 2016 22:29:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jo Woolf http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/05/days-like-this-no-14-travellers-and-the-cluanie-ridge/#comment-21729 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:56:04 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8846#comment-21729 That’s one that I have actually climbed part way up??? a very long time ago! When we were staying in Glenelg. So remote there, with red deer all over the road. Just beautiful!

]]> By: McEff http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/05/days-like-this-no-14-travellers-and-the-cluanie-ridge/#comment-21724 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 16:21:31 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8846#comment-21724 Hi Jo. Yes, we drove over to Glenelg. It’s a lovely little place. In fact there’s another Munro down that way I’ve yet to climb, Beinn Sgritheall, but I didn’t get chance on my last visit. Still, that’s a good excuse for a return to the area sometime.
All the best, Alen

]]> By: Jo Woolf http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/05/days-like-this-no-14-travellers-and-the-cluanie-ridge/#comment-21694 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:22:14 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8846#comment-21694 A lovely story, Alen, and those are beasts of mountains. A big day out for sure! I remember we used to go over the Ratagan Pass (in the car, that is!) to Glenelg where there’s a wonderful old turntable ferry still operating between there and Skye.

]]> By: mountaincoward http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/05/days-like-this-no-14-travellers-and-the-cluanie-ridge/#comment-21602 Sat, 07 Feb 2015 02:13:09 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8846#comment-21602 … or lying at the bottom in a gully somewhere…

]]> By: McEff http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/05/days-like-this-no-14-travellers-and-the-cluanie-ridge/#comment-21572 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 20:27:07 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8846#comment-21572 Hi Carol. I remember the route being very slippery and awkward after leaving Creag nan Damh because the snow was falling quite heavily and I wanted to get down before the daylight vanished. At that point I was passed by a soldier who was intent on doing the full nine Munros and was planning to descend the Forcan Ridge in the snow and the darkness. I never saw him again so perhaps he’s still up there.
Cheers, Alen

]]> By: mountaincoward http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/05/days-like-this-no-14-travellers-and-the-cluanie-ridge/#comment-21570 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 20:11:43 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8846#comment-21570 It is always the ones who have the least who are the more generous – we used to notice that when we went Carol Singing (for charity) as kids – the big houses gave very little if they answered the door at all, the council houses always listened, smiled and gave us something.

That route onward from Creag nan Damh to the pass you descended from – didn’t you find that ‘lump’ in the way immediately on leaving the Munro very awkward? I was really glad I’d gone the way I did and could ascend, rather than descend, it!
Carol.

]]> By: McEff http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/05/days-like-this-no-14-travellers-and-the-cluanie-ridge/#comment-21569 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 20:04:27 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8846#comment-21569 Hanna, thank you for your wonderful comment. You always brighten my day with your take on life.
All the best, Alen

]]> By: McEff http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/05/days-like-this-no-14-travellers-and-the-cluanie-ridge/#comment-21568 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 20:02:50 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8846#comment-21568 Hi Chris. There are a few spooky places in Glen Shiel. In fact, there was a battle there once involving an alliance of Jacobites and Spanish soldiers against Red Coats, so perhaps the dog was on to something.
And it’s not the first time I’ve looked out of place on a pile of rags. Probably won’t be the last either.
Cheers, Alen

]]> By: Hanna http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/05/days-like-this-no-14-travellers-and-the-cluanie-ridge/#comment-21567 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 19:31:39 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8846#comment-21567 I love the beginning of your log no. 14. The magically universe that sometimes closes in on you when you step into a world where it is nature that determines how your walk will be.
The end of your story ties it all together in a marvellous unexpected way. Thank you for sharing your experience between Munros, snow showers and warm hearted people.
All the best,
Hanna

]]> By: Chris http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/05/days-like-this-no-14-travellers-and-the-cluanie-ridge/#comment-21566 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 18:29:40 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8846#comment-21566 Playing golf as a lad I met another golfer who swore his dog could detect the ghosts and phantoms of Glen Shiel; it always acted weird when he was up there. I need to put the peaks on a ‘bucket list.’ I’ve been in the valley, but not up above it.

And after the blizzard and the rain and the A87 slush you probably didn’t look out of place on a back seat full of rags!
Chris

]]> By: McEff http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/05/days-like-this-no-14-travellers-and-the-cluanie-ridge/#comment-21561 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 16:57:43 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8846#comment-21561 Alastair, if you fell in a septic tank (which you probably have at some point) you’d come up smelling of roses!
All the best, Alen

]]> By: McEff http://becausetheyrethere.com/2015/02/05/days-like-this-no-14-travellers-and-the-cluanie-ridge/#comment-21560 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 16:55:35 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8846#comment-21560 Hi David. I think that was the first time I heard stags roaring, and it took me a couple of minutes to work out what it was. I’ve seen red deer on High Street, on the Martindale side, but not heard them roaring up there. It’s a spooky sound.
Cheers, Alen

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