{"id":3450,"date":"2010-06-16T23:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tadturski.net\/?p=940"},"modified":"2023-08-24T11:04:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T11:04:14","slug":"ben-macdui-and-beinn-mheadhoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tad.scot\/?p=3450","title":{"rendered":"Ben Macdui &#038; Beinn Mheadhoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Because I have been to the summit of Cairn Gorm, I decided to go along a ridge called Fiacaill a&#8217; Choire Chais. This move let me save some time and cover the same path twice. I did the route on 16 June 2010.<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>1: Car park near the Funicular Railway.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>2: A path heading off the track led to a gap between Cairngorm and Cairn Lochan. <\/strong>I decided to leave behind the summit of Cairngorm because I&#8217;d been there already.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>3: The gap.<\/strong> After the tiring climb, I reached the gap; the upper half of the ridge was covered with clouds, so from time to time, I had to look for the path disappearing on the rocky slope.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>4: The summit of Ben Macdui (1309m).<\/strong> I&#8217;d planned to go along the cliff towards Cairn Lochan, but I mistakenly chose the wrong path in the clouds and patchy snow; eventually, I found the right one to Ben Macdui.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>5: The summit of Beinn Mheadhoin (1182m).<\/strong> From Ben Macdui, I went westward for about 1 km and followed the path downwards to Loch Etchachan. From there, I climbed Beinn Mheadhoin with its characteristic rocky towers. I headed down on the pathless northern slope from the summit to Loch Avon.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>6: Crossing the River Avon.<\/strong> The river was swollen because of melting snow, so it took me about fifteen minutes to find a good place to cross it.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>7: Crossroads.<\/strong> That is the spot where a few paths cross. One of them leads upward on the eastern slope of Cairngorm. The last part of it went through a valley unluckily covered with deep snow; additionally, slanting rain and clouds made climbing more difficult.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>8: Ptarmigan Bowl &#8211; the upper station of the Funicular Railway.<\/strong> I felt great relief when I reached the building. But then I had to pass a dull, boring, bulldozed track downward.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>9: A path heading off the track and leading to the base station.<\/strong> That was an excellent opportunity to avoid repeating part of the route.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I have been to the summit of Cairn Gorm, I decided to go along a ridge called Fiacaill a&#8217; Choire Chais. This move let me save some time and cover the same path twice. I did the route on 16 June 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-munros","category-outdoors"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tad.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/braeriach-1-3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tad.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tad.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tad.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tad.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tad.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tad.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14156,"href":"https:\/\/tad.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions\/14156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tad.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tad.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tad.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tad.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}