Clachnaben Mar 2005

This past weekend, saw a bunch of us 'exploring' Clachnaben, which is located near Banchory and about 45 mins drive from Aberdeen. Clachnaben is about 589 m high. The route was well marked out. The walk was fairly easygoing in the valley but gets more strenous as the path leads up to the summit. We had a mix of first timers and experienced walkers for this outing. This was Seun, Jehan and Mohamed first hillwalk and Seun was doing very well indeed; leading the pack right up to the summit. All the jogging to and from work has paid off for Seun. :) The weather was misty but luckily it wasn't raining. As we reached the top, the only view we were left admiring was the mist. As Sang puts it, there are so many ways in which you can admire the mist. Haha. All of us made it to the top, took us ~ 1.5 hours! Seun, Mohamed and Dan reached the summit first, followed by Rida and myself and, Jehan and Sang. It was freezing up at the summit, our butts are almost glued to the granite boulder as you can see from the later pictures. The whole walk took 3 hours and at the end of the journey, we were rewarded with a wonderful picnic + ice-cream (mind you, low fat!) prepared by Seun. Thanks Seun!!!