Fisher Feild 6 Munros Dundonnell area.

Day One

      On The 20th of June 2011, I set out from  The car park at Nh114 850 near to Dundonnell. I had the bright idea of being on top of a Munro when the sun came up on the solstice (not that bright). This involved camping with quite a bit of kit to take with me. Thinking that I would not like to carry all the weight in my rucksack I nicked No1 sons bike which I had retro fitted with a rear pannier rack and mudguards off a old bike, I found in the shed. Having bought panniers to carry some of the load.

  Got all the food, stove and gas in the panniers and the tent  mallet and my walking polls bungeed  on to the rack and strapped a 2ltr bottle of water to the frame of the bike. Made the bike a little heavy at the back end. Rest of the stuff in rucksack sleeping bag ect.

 Me setting off from car park.

      I set of up the land Rover track pushing the bike (would be doing that a lot on this trip) about 7.15pm after a 3 hour drive up from near Aberdeen and working all day. 

    First obstacle is a gate which buy good luck has a small side gate which opens fully. Would have been fun trying to get through a style with the bike.

     Interesting sign here about fishing telling you to phone so and so if you see any one fishing past this point. Difficult as gess what phones don't work past this point lol.

 Any who the old land Rover track is a tad steep in places and pretty rough to.

 

    Puffing and panting my way up I got good views of An Teallach to the west of the track. Buy now jacket of Avon skin so soft on to keep the dam miges at bay.

    After abut 45 min pushing the bike, I came on my first river/ burn crossing as my mates will tell you I dont like river crossings much as the river Dee tried it best to kill me one day.

   Bonus the estate had built a we brig just up from where the Land Rover track went through the burn. Its a tad boggie getting to the brig.

 Just after you cross the brig is the steepest bit of the Land Rover track and pretty  rough with large stones. Took me a while to get up to the summit which is marked with a cairn. 

     About 1/2 km from here heading south there is a well marked path to the right which takes you to Shenavall bothie. keeping on the Land Rover track I finally got on my bike for a about 3 km across the Plato with some we ups and downs and a few big puddles to cross.
 
   Got my firs views of the hills I was going to climb the next day from the plato. Beinn a' Chlaidheimh , Sgurr Ban, Mullach Coire Mhic Fhearchair and Bein Tarsuinn. Which was hiding round the back of the other 3. With the impressive Beinn Dearg Mor Corbett  of to the west.

      Got to the summit here about 8.30 pm glad to see some down hill. Took me about 40 min to get across the Plato. From the top of the glen good views of Strath na Sealga (where I was heading to camp) and the surrounding Munro's and Corbett's. Managed to ride the bike down the hill brakes nearly full on all the way down to the Strath. There is a few we burns to cross on the way down walked across them.

 Getting late in the day and the sun was heading down got a good view along to Loch na Sealga  to the west as I headed down the Land Rover track.

Achneigie just visible just to the right of the pic half way up.  

    There were a few tents in the Strath when I arrived  so I picked a spot on a little island with a small burn about 3 foot wide each side which was easy to walk across in my boots without getting wet. Found a flat grassy pitch with no stones and put the tent up.

  

                                            Note the we burn in the pic  more on day 3.

I watched the sun set on the shortest night and hoped for good weather the next day.

Sleep now.

   You would have thought that in one of the most remote glens in Scotland it would be quiet at night. Nope the wild life had other ideas. Don't know what it was that was making a racket late in to the night might have been a wild goat or something but between it and the noise of the river it took me a while to nod off. Sleep at last.

Day One the end. (cream cracked)