So today I was working for Jagged Globe on the Ben Nevis start of the Three Peaks Challenge for 188 charity fund raisers. I was working with Ken, Isi, Jamie, Spike and David. We had to get out of bed at 2am and start walking with headtorches at 3am. I used my headtorch for about 10 minutes, the dark nights are so short at the moment. There were 36 teams for us to marshall and they started walking without the need for headtorches at 4am. On our way up we met some people already coming down, including 3 mountain bikers - now that was an early start! I got to the top at about 5.20am. Ken and I had it to ourselves for about an hour before the teams started to stream up. So we spent our time checking out the cliffs and crags for the winter routes making our hit list for 2012!
The weather was fantastic, we were treated to a cloud inversion for most of the morning. Much better than being in bed .. There's always time to sleep later (I did).
The top of Gardyloo Gully. There's still a little snow on the path to the top, and a lot in Observatory Gully as usual.
The clouds did finally roll in over the summit, but there was no rain.. Basically we were blessed with this weather after more than 4 weeks of rain....Down to the car park with everybody packed off to England for stage 2, by 11.30am.
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