Log No 95. Mon 29th Jul 2013 - Barisdale to Inverie, 8 miles (1493 miles walked)

Thoughts for my initial route from Barisdale were to find a way along the north side of the peninsula to meet up with the end of the path 8 miles away and eventally get round to Inverie.

The terrain was steeply sloped, wooded in places and with a lot of crags & cliff faces.
I decided to take the easy option and use the footpath over the pass to Inverie.

It was only going to be an 8 mile walk to Inverie so there was no rush to start in the morning. We let the scouts get away so we had the bothy to ourselves and I was able to catch up with writing the log.

It was cloudy but dry when we set off at 10.30.

It is a well walked path to Inverie and we just took it steady taking 2 hours 20 minutes to reach the top of the pass, having climbed 450m.

Fresh water was not an issue here with plenty of streams coming straight down the hillside.

When I was here before, climbing the munroes, the weather was not great and I didn't have any views so it was good that today the cloud was clear of the tops.

We could see some folk on the summit of Luinne Bheinn.

The descent was quite steep to start with, gradually easing to Loch an Dubh-Lochain.

From the loch it was more or less level and we stopped to finish off our lunch just before the monument to Lord Brocket.

The rain started shortly after we set off again with the showers getting heavier coming into Inverie.

There was a final short climb along the side of the forestry plantation before dropping into Inverie.

We had planned to get our evening meal at the hotel there after pitching our tents.

There was no campsite shown on the map but we came to a sign saying "Campsite & Bunkhouse".
With the rain still coming down we opted to use the Bunkhouse and got to it at 15.15 just before the heavens really opened.

The kitchen had a shelf with a variety of communal food supplies and with a notice to freely help yourself.

With the rain still bucketing down Mick manage to concoct a meal so we never went out again.

We got all our phones and batteries charged up and with a good drying room we got some washing done.

We still had no phone signal but there was a public phone here.

I discovered later in the evening that it also had WIFI so I was able to update the website.