A very rainy hike

Today we want to go hiking to visit the Eas a’ Chùal Aluin waterfall. A six hour hike in total.

This is the plan

Our guide

Altitude aling the track

Driving towards the starting point we passed this nice ruin of a castle, so we stopped for a little walk and to have a look.

Nice view along the way

Ardvreck castle

It took some searching to find the start of the track and the right parking spot, but around 15.00 we were ready to start hiking. The weather was looking good, some clouds over the mountain, but nothing really to worry about.

We found the start of the path

On our way

After an hour or so it started to rain a bit, we considered going back, but stubborn as we are we walked on. Not much later the first real rain of the week poured down and it didn’t take to long to get soaking wet. So we decided to put up camp and call it a day.

Hiding for the rain in our micro tent

And so we were laying in our tiny tent hoping for the rain to stop. If it would get dry we could make a little fire and have some soup, otherwise it would be Raiders and mueslybars for diner.

Luckily the rain stopped after an hour or so, wich meant we could go outside and make a little campfire to cook some water for our noodles and some coffee with whisky afterwards.

Our nature stove

Diner 😁

Campfire

Our camp for the night

After diner we tried to keep a litle campfire going, but with no trees around wood was hard to find. So keeping the fire burning was a bit of a challange, but we did, kind of.

Because the sun started to shine again we tried to dry all of our wet clothes. We didn’t put our raining clothes on at the first drops because it was so warm, now al our clothes were sooking wet, lesson for the next walk. Luckily we had our thermo underwear with us, so we had some dry clothes. It felt a bit funny sitting at the campfire in our underwear, but there was nobody who could see us, so who cares.

Then we waited for the sun to sett and went to bed afterwards. 

Good night