Torridon Aftermath, sun, sea and Mr P

[gmac123]

great pic's, I'll finish my write up chore once I finish the chores Mrs Mac has left me :x

in the meantime, here's the best of my poor photo's


gaz with the 1st crossing of the ford at the River Coulin by gmac123, on Flickr


Jamie fords the River Coulin by gmac123, on Flickr


Zigzag fords the River Coulin by gmac123, on Flickr


Mr P leaves TK in the distance and facing the wrong direction by gmac123, on Flickr



grinning Zigzag the decent to Achnashellach by gmac123, on Flickr


Velo & Kaiser the decent to Achnashellach by gmac123, on Flickr


TK rips up the decent to Achnashellach by gmac123, on Flickr


gaz limbers up for bridge by gmac123, on Flickr


TK crosses Fionn-amhainn by gmac123, on Flickr


mountain man gaz contemplates a first ascent of Maol Chean-dearg by gmac123, on Flickr


ole Klein and Maol Chean-dearg by gmac123, on Flickr

 

[Radoslaw]

It looks like you had a great time folks, pity I couldn't turn up this time. I guess weather was a benefit, slightly better than last time @ F. William.

I thought I never say this about Velo's bike but that's actually very nice and I mean very nice :shock: Great photos too.

 

[The Ken]

Well I'll open with my panoramas....

This was the view a few hundred yards from the bunkhouse...

And more...

First singletrack decent - brilliant fun and I didn't crash here.

Lunch Break, only here did we find we could have gone to a pub 5 miles back for lunch.

Many screams of the C word to get to this the highest point.

Kaiser fixes a puncture on the moon.

Destination Torridon - only 10 miles of road once we get down there, this was taken around 2/3rds of the way down.

 

[velomaniac]

Time to bodge up a 29er methinks, 26er gates with skinny tyres cant cut that stuff.......oh the pain :roll:

Great weekend, helish climb, rough as a very rough thing descent but great company in stunning scenery with good weather and great beer and food at our digs.

 

[The Ken]

Road to kinlochewe...

Aye the food was good....

Stac Cromoly

Easy Start

Jamie on the road

First snack break

Coulin

Loch Carron

Bothy Break...

What did we do to deserve this

Top of the morning

If I lean against this rock no one will notice my excitement

I can see where I crashed from here

Upper Loch Torridon

 

[Uncle Monty]

Absolutely fantastic. The scenery is stunning.

 

[john]

Looks epic, great pics. Lucky on the lack of rain too....

 

[zigzag]

Saturday morning, Gazz happy and well rested after a peaceful nights sleep

Loch Coulin, Meall an Leathaid Mhoir in the background

Following the walkers path along the east bank of Loch Coulin - much more interesting than the fire-road above, gmac guided us right

Coulin Lodge, Beinn Eighe towers above

Singlespeeding mountain hardmen (before any hills/rocks)

Bridge over the treacherous River Coulin

Kaiser bravely fords the torrent

Jamie and TheKen follow suit

Jamie rests his arm on an imaginary mantelpiece, while Velo unpacks his smoking jacket to compliment his satin headscarf

TheKen prepares to bunny hop the held together with rags Bridgestone

Velo heads off down the walker's path coming down from the Coulin Pass towards the A890 - great wee descent

Kaiser, TheKen and Jamie further down the same path

Part way down the descent, looking west towards Loch Dughaill

Velo and Mr P heading north out of Coulags

Bridge or ford? Gazz ponders crossing the Fionn-abhainn

Bothy break

You would look like this too if you had to sit on a giant knob...

Not far from Loch Coire Fionnaraich, mix of riding and hike-a-bike

TheKen and Jamie, Meall nan Ceapairean and Maol Chean-daerg in the background

Kaiser and gmac atop a heathery knoll

Water feature heading down towards Loch Coire Fionnaraich

Skirting the loch, Meal Daerg in the background, the climb up to Bealach na Lice on the right is revealed

Bealach na Lice, brrrrrrr coldest point of the ride

Lovely first stretch of trail coming down from Bealach na Lice...

... skirting Loch an Eion

Gazz Bewitched?

Looking south towards Maol Chean-daerg

Looking north towards Liathach, Gazz and gmac look east

 

[keithyr]

goddamn i wish i was able to make that like.

crackin photies.

 

[REKIBorter]

Gorgeous pictures.