Day 11
Monday 24th May - Ballater to Tarfside
The route for the day was to Tarfside via Mount Keen. Again we were enjoying reasonable weather but knew we had a good days walking in front of us. It's a long pull uphill before dropping into Glen Tanar, and at a stop for a brew Nigel was still showing signs of Saturday evening, the early hours of Sunday morning, and the 17 miles to Ballater.
However the journey was soon resumed and after a steep climb both reached the summit of Mount Keen.
It was a fairly uneventful descent down the Ladder Burn path and on to Queen's Well. We stopped some time later for an afternoon brew and the boys were watching the wild life using light weight binoculars which Richard had brought along for that purpose. Nobody knows who was responsible but were left behind at that point and the loss wasn't discovered until the next morning. We made camp that evening on the Tarfside Games Field along with many more Challengers.
