Scottish Highlands - Kinlochewe and Torridon

Beinn Eighe

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Megan at the summit cairn, Beinn Damh

Hello friends and family and Happy Birthday for yesterday Mum! (21 again??!!)

Megan and I are on another walking holiday up here and have just done an ascent of Beinn Damh, 2957ft. Just short of a Munro (which requires 3000 ft), but a fine mountain with spectacular views of all the famous mountains around it. A fall of snow overnight gave an unexpected bonus. The mountains always look at their best with a bit of snow on them, as hopefully the photos show. It was a smashing day and already we have managed something we didn't manage on our recent Skye holiday - a summit!

As we were at the summit admiring the views we saw very bad weather heading our way, so we packed up quickly and headed down. Soon we were in a real blizzard - in May! We were covered in snow, then just as quickly it stopped, the sun came out, and it was nice again.

Birding has been good, with Osprey and Golden Eagle seen on the nine hour drive up, and today Wheatear and a Scottish Speciality - Ptarmigan.