Four New Things - Part Four

Any morning like this is going to be special.  We'd paid our dues over the previous three days, taking the weather on the chin, making the most of the cards we'd been dealt and now we'd been promised a cloudless sky and plummeting temperatures.  That was going to make things pretty special.

But going to a new mountain?  That's what makes a day really special.  Around every corner lurks something new, yet another view to etch itself forever in your mind's eye.  Adventure.

But there's more.  Today's objective was the mysterious, legendary Creag Meagiadh.  Renowned for it's impeccable ice climbing but notoriously fickle and avalanche prone, none of us had climbed there, but we'd all yearned for it for a long time.

We could see our route glinting at us from miles away, beckoning us, tickling that urge within us.  We were powerless to resist.

It delivered everything it promised from afar.

And as perfect a day in the mountains as you could ask for