Day 8
Friday 13th May - Allt Scheichachan bothy to Glen Loch
Thus Day 8, in addition to being another Foul Knee Day, was a decidedly-underslept day, and all Challengers know how that feels. Anyway, that's my excuse for chickening-out of Beinn a'Ghlo, although the black clouds over it did not justify a Foul Weather Alternative, and another challenger headed up that way. The consolation was the discovery of the most exquisite stalker's path running for miles along the slopes of the hills opposite, before dropping to an idyllic campsite in Glen Loch.
I was brewing my first brew in the evening sunshine, with the world to myself, when with astonishment I heard voices... hallucination?? No, two more challengers coming down the same track. Brian and Jim were really pushing it, because Jim had been unwell for the first few days and they had lost time. They had covered that day almost what I had done in two!
