Ben Klibreck 19th March

Today saw Rich and Dave attempting to summit both Ben Klibreck and Ben Hope.

The weather was threatening to rain/snow and a frost overnight made the inital going quite good.

Getting up to the saddle was hard going and visibility was down to about 50m at times, but as height was gained the weather started to clear and eventually gave way to sunshine over the valley.





We followed the ridge route round to the final push to the summit and slogged our way through fresh snow to the summit cairn.




Time to the top was 3hrs 20 and over all journey was 6hrs 30 mins (with apparently 30mins delay down to Davie faffing about).





Once back at the car we established that we had been given some duff gen by the hotel owner and his suggested route had added about 6km to our journey (about 2 hrs). This and a very knackered Davie meant that a secondary attempt on Ben Hope was beyond reach. (DAMN!)

Arrived at Inchnadamph to get ready for the next leg - Conival and Ben More Assynt tomorrow. Post to follow.