TGO Challenge - Wild Camps (No 36: 16 May 2011)

After a pretty dreadful night in Coire a'Ghabhalach, Mike and I descended and contoured into Gleann Cailliche, where we paused in the vague shelter of a sheep pen surrounded by droppings, near the Tigh nam Bodach antiquity, which we didn't visit on this occasion.

Any thoughts of continuing our planned high level route over Meall Buidhe were soon put to bed, as Mike needed his bed as soon as possible. (Keep reading, and eventually you'll see that I did manage to get to Meall Buidhe from here in a later year.)

Anyway, after a five hour stroll, we camped in a meadow next to Allt Coire a'Bhuic, about 3 km from Gorton Bothy, having seen just one person (not a Challenger) on the hill. We enjoyed lunch in the Phreerunner tent before embarking on a lazy afternoon. It had been raining for three days, and our Sealskinz gloves were wet, and difficult to get dry.

I can't resist adding this picture of Poor Michael, sheltering behind the sheep enclosure in Gleann Cailliche. I only took five pictures all day, and four of them are reproduced here.

Happy Days!