Tuesday, 6th September 2011
After a very late 0200 finish on the bikes last night and a (hopefully) shorter day today the team decided to catch up on some sleep and start at 0900 this morning. Unfortunately the weather hadn't changed overnight and even a good nights sleep couldn't revive their spirits!
The day was ridiculously wet and extremely windy; it was very tough battling against the wind and the rain all day - even the best gortex couldn't cope! Alex was very nearly lifted off his feet and they were crawling along some of the route in order to stay out of the wind. The team came across some very swollen and flooding rivers.
Despite the weather, the 'munro hopping' continued. In honour of the Royal Welsh Regiment, the team scrambled across Carn Ghluasaid, Sgurr nan Conbhairea - dedicated to Private James Prosser, and Sail Chaorainn.
In memory of Pte Jonathan Monk and Pte John Brackpool of the Princess of Wales Regiment the team climbed Mullach Fraoch-choire. The journey across A’ Chralaig was dedicated to the Royal Gloucester, Wiltshire and Berkshire Regiment.
Meanwhile half of the support team trudged into the youth hostel at Alltbeithe (only accessible by a 3 hour walk from the nearest road) and set up camp. It was a really cosy building which was very eco friendly with wind and solar powered lights, two fires which heat the water for the shower and everything is recycled bar a couple of bags of rubbish a month!
The team arrived in well ahead of schedule at 1800 ahead of Sarah, Becky and Lucy who were still on their way with the rest of the kit and the supper (they had to pick Becky up from the station). The team made the most of the spare time and had a quick 2 hour kip! The support team arrived and unpacked. Sarah concocted a delicious paella style supper which apparently contained a mystery ingredient...it has never been revealed and we're not sure we want to know!
They were joined for supper by Rob Keane a friend of Cpl Terry Webster who planned to spend the day with the team the next day.
After supper the boys made straight for the bunk beds and managed to get a good 10 hour sleep in total - a first!
The team has now climbed 213 munros!
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