{"id":5489,"date":"2019-06-09T10:15:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T09:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5489"},"modified":"2019-06-13T22:30:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T21:30:15","slug":"leading-the-inverness-ramblers-up-two-munros-in-glen-affric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/09\/leading-the-inverness-ramblers-up-two-munros-in-glen-affric\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading the Inverness Ramblers up two Munros in Glen Affric"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m just a couple of months away from taking my Mountain Leader assessment and earlier this month I took a group out on what can probably be regarded as my first ‘proper’ solo mountain leading experience. A group of 10 from the Inverness Ramblers turned up for my walk up Tom a’ Choinich and Toll Creagach in Glen Affric, despite the poor forecast.<\/p>\n

There was certainly a deep sense of satisfaction in getting everybody safely up and down these two Munros, some of them pushing themselves to achieve both summits. A number of the walkers had only done one or two Munros before, so this was no easy outing for them.<\/p>\n

It was a different experience for me, being conscious of keeping the group together despite a range of experience and fitness levels. But I soon got into a stride, and even managed to discuss a little bit of local history, geology and talk about some of the wildflowers we saw on the way. We also spotted deer and a beautiful emperor moth.<\/p>\n

Here are a few photos from the hike. Thanks to the Inverness Ramblers again for the opportunity to lead another walk for them and I look forward to seeing you out on the hills again – hopefully in better weather next time!<\/p>\n

\"Through <\/a>
Through Gleann nam Fiadh with Tom a’ Choinich ahead. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Heading <\/a>
Heading up alongside the Allt Toll Easa. <\/div> <\/div>
\"On <\/a>
On the old path to the Bealach Toll Easa. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Starting <\/a>
Starting up the east ridge to Tom a’ Choinich. <\/div> <\/div>
\"Making <\/a>
Making their way up Tom a’ Choinich’s east ridge. <\/div> <\/div>
\"The <\/a>
The group at the summit of Tom a’ Choinich. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"On <\/a>
On the descent from Tom a’ Choinich. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Pausing <\/a>
Pausing for a break on final ascent to Toll Creagach. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Approaching <\/a>
Approaching the summit of Toll Creagach. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Emperor <\/a>
Emperor moth with eggs. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leading a group from the Inverness Ramblers on a hike up Tom a’ Choinich and Toll Creagach in Glen Affric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Leading the Inverness Ramblers group up Glen Affric Munros","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Ramblers-Inverness-Affric-hike-18.jpg?fit=1000%2C667&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5M0xs-1qx","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5540,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489\/revisions\/5540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}