A nice day out shopping...

...or at least it was for Jen, luckily for me she dropped me off in Glen Nevis on her way. She got to go shopping without me standing behind her asking if it's time to go home yet (not conducive to bargain hunting apparently!) and I got to play on some rock for an hour or so.

I thought I'd wander around the boulders having a bit of play but I soon realised having a guidebook would have been handy. I found out on the Internet before we left that there was supposed to be some easy stuff just near the road but everything I found was either really easy or too hard for me (mainly too hard). I had always wanted to have a look at the Scimitar Boulder and I knew where it was so I headed in that direction. I thought I could make the approach more interesting by heading up Scimitar Ridge, a shortish scramble about grade 1/2 according to Mr Cicerone.


The scrambling wasn't hard but it was nice to be out in the Glen again, the breeze was easily keeping the midges at bay, just a shame I didn't have anyone to talk to when I had a sit down at the top, still, at least I didn't have to share my cake. It's not a challenging scramble but a handy one to know about as it will be easily do-able in the wet and gives good views across the Polldubh crags to the west.

As you descend from the top you come past the Scimitar boulder which looks amazing. I had a little play on it and will definitely be back with a mat and maybe a spotter (Jen) to tackle the harder problems.


In other news, one of our chickens appears to be some kind of genetically modified variety as we have had 3 double yolkers this week. Is it a bird?, is it a plane?...no it's SUPER-HEN!

--Matt