Thursday 6 February 2025 - Ben Venue

Here's today's destination, Ben Venue (729 metres), pictured above the early morning mist over Loch Achray. 

The path 'To the Hill' started just down the road from Tigh Mor. Ten out of the eleven of us on this trip set out on the walk.

Soon our path left the road and went over a humpy bridge with good views to some waterfalls in converging rivers.

The sun was shining as we progressed up the hill on a good path to a convenient point for an elevenses break.

There were more fine views as we continued up the path to a large cairn on which Richard inexplicably started to strip off!

Unfortunately the cloud came down as we headed off to the trig point. 

The trig point is not the summit - that is some 400 metres away along the rocky crest. Somehow we managed to stay together in the mist. Here's Sue, appreciating the view from the summit.

A passer by with a nice dog took the next picture whilst I was slip/sliding writhing on some nearby slippery rocks.

Then we headed back down to the col with the massive cairn for a much needed lunch break.

After that.... back the way we came, for a much needed pot of tea at Tigh Mor. 

Today's outing, shown below, was about 15km, with 750 metres ascent, taking rather more than 6 hours.

We took it easy. It's a great walk, with some entertainment in the snow above the big cairn, and also in the bog below the big cairn. I'm happy to report that everyone got back safely, and well in time for tea and cake, sauna and steam room, and (hopefully) dinner at the nearby Lade Inn.

Thanks go to Jenny for some of the pictures.