Tuesday 16th August 2011
Today the guys had a really fantastic day with a group of 11 Regiment Explosive Ordnance Disposal members (bomb disposal guys!). They met 10 of them at Boreland Farm (the eco bunk house they camped outside and borrowed facilities from). After a breakfast of cereal, juice and jam sandwiches, the team and the EOD bods headed off up through the farm and out onto the hills at about 0730. Unfortunately this was a bit behind schedule as Alex needed another session with foot specialist Si Long, but these things are important if his feet are to survive the next few weeks.
The EOD members joined the team for the first Munro (Meall Greigh) and were met by another 14 who were waiting at the top of the second Munro (Meall Garbh). This gave the team a real boost, having such a fantastic new group with them and new groups at each summit. So the team send a big thank you to everyone who joined them today. The third squadron had come all the way especially from Belfast! Everyone was in good spirits and the climbers are enjoying having Si with them.
As this was happening, the support team were having a lie-in before packing up the tent. Steve and Becky went off and did bike/car cleaning whilst Sarah and Lucy spent rather a lot of money buying food for the team in Tesco’s and driving around all of Scotland getting kit for the team. They bought a new waterproof for Ceri in Braemar, and walking poles too to ease the pressure on his feet; a new trend set by Alex which Tom has yet to catch on to. They would like a special thankyou to go to the lovely man who works in the Munro shop in Pitlochry for being very helpful!
Henry, Si, the climbers and the EOD went off up 7 Munros together and were ahead of schedule, getting to camp at about 1600 before Lucy and Sarah! The team were camping by a dam on the edge of Loch na Lairige and fish and chips were bought by Steve and Jack to keep them going. The team had very luckily had a very dry day but on arriving at camp it was incredibly windy. A broken tent pole and pegs which wouldn't stay in the ground meant that the tent was on the verge of taking off all night!
Don't forget that you can follow the team's progress in real time via their spottracker.
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