Hill Running in the Scottish Mountains | Midweek Munro’s.

Hey everyone, welcome to a weeknight adventure with Outdoor Intrigue. It is Tuesday and we finished work and drove a couple of hours over to do Bentulchen and Crochedrin, which are two Munros in the Cree and Laurich area. But you have to, the easiest route up them you kind of come right around towards Lochernhed and out. Actually it's a really nice little picturesque drive. So we're heading up Bentulchen, which is up in the clouds and then along the ridgeline down a little way, Crochedrin and dropping back down, down to the car. It's just after half six, well twenty to seven, so we'll see what time we get back and then we've got a two hour drive home. But it's good weather at the moment, rain is forecast, that's potentially thunderstorms, we'll see how that goes. It is humid, but we're rearing for it, we're ready. We're going to take these on, get the legs stretched. And the rain chasing us up from the loch. It looks crazy, it's kind of stuck on the other side of this mountain for now. It's clear up there, but on the other side it's very wet. We have lovely clear blue skies and rain and thunderstorms. No thunder just yet. Fingers crossed no thunder or lightning. The cloud is coming, now from every angle. We've lost our blue sky. Now we just have Humidity is exceedingly high. Sweaty work. Straight up this one. We're not that far. A few hundred metres, well we've come a good few hundred metres we were earlier. Have a look. Maybe three hundred off the summit. We've come up 1,400 feet, which is around 400 metres. Steeply. Birds of prey. Is it all just ravens? No they're harassing something else. Oh yeah. No chance you're going to see that in a moment. There he goes. Off he goes. Water? Water. And the views are gone. We're in a cloud. With sunshine. We're just off the summit. Last little pole. 100 metres or less. And we're in clag. 360 views for you. Stunning. Breeze though, finally. Up over 800 and something metres and it's the first breeze we've had. It's been stifling. Alright. Onwards. 900. We can take that. 900. Oh look at that. 946. Wow. We're just up above the cloud we've come out above it. I'll show you over this way maybe. You can't quite see all the way down but you can see a ways down. For a minute there we were going to end up back in it I think. Look at that. Gives you a little bit more perspective. Down, round. 946 metres up. Yep. Monroe number 40. 40 yeah. In the bag. In the bag. Maggie's just trying out a knee brace from Ultimate Performance. Ultimate Performance and it's an IT band isn't it? Yeah. I mean that's not an IT band but it helps your IT band. The IT band is. How many is that? Tendon. Tendon or? Yeah tendon. It runs down the outside of your leg if there's a bit of pain in your knee. I've self-diagnosed that I have some sort of IT band issue. Not IT band syndrome I don't think but just a little bit of pain. Particularly on long descents. Yeah it's just the impact of coming down just hurts a bit so throwing this out is the way it goes. Yeah. Because the hokers so far are not helping. Yeah they've not played ball with you. That's the way it goes. I still love mine although they're starting to get a bit battered. You can see that bit's falling apart. I'm trying out. I'll show you guys this little, this beautiful. Chest pouch. Chest pouch. Picked one of these up from OMM. Original Mountain Marathon. UK company that do a lot of trail running stuff. I've mentioned them probably a few before. Our packs, our day packs are by them. Ultra 15s. They're really good. Light, comfy. They're really nice and they give a really snug fit so if you want to run as well in them which we often do on descents then you don't get much bounce or movement. So yeah I've got a chest pouch from them. I just got this and it fits on loads of different packs. I actually want to use it more for my wild camping packs so you can have a slightly smaller pack and then anything you want to hand particularly when you're going fast you can have with you. So I've got in here a few bits and pieces. Little microphone which I haven't used yet. Head torch because we're going to be out quite late. Some chocolate. Some gloves because the weather's a pretty mixed bag today and I normally keep my phone in here as well and you can keep all sorts of snacks. There's quite a lot of room in there as you can see. And it clips on any pack that has shoulder clips which most of them do and then it has these two little elasticated with like a hook on the end. You can fashion it however you want but most packs you can just clip it on somewhere lower down and then it stays nice and tight and you can adjust it. Yeah so far I like it. Obviously it's sweaty so like I mean you can tell. I'm sweaty but it's so handy having the things right there. So yeah see how it goes. I think I like it. Time for a little snack before Crocodrain. Yeah snack and then Munro too. That way. We're back in the cloud. Crocodrain. There's Maggie's. In the cloud. Claggy views today. Munro 41. Conkowd. Yeah it looks like there's normally. Yeah. Stop Benin. Ben Moore stop Benin over here. Gorgeous. Yeah. Out into the Korean Larry hills around us. Just imagining. Yeah. Use your imagination guys. Come on. Jeez. Right. So. And now sweat air. And now we drop down nice and sharpish. So this is our second and final summit of the evening. 10 to 9. So we've been going for just over two hours I guess. We're at sunset. Yeah it's just coming up to sunset now really so we're going to start losing the light in this cloud probably quite quickly but dropping back down and then we cut off left and it's kind of a loop. Oh no. So yeah. Oh dear the chocolate's been dropped. Quickly. Save it. Oh my god. The precious chocolate. I blame you. I accept no responsibility. Yep that's the plan basically. Yeah. Drop down. We'll see what the ground's like but it looks like there's a reasonable track once we get down to sort of where the stream starts in the valley itself and from there we'll probably run back to the car. Jog run. See how we go. We'll see what the path's like on the way down. Probably move quite quickly but we'll feel it out. It's good going. So peacefully quiet isn't it. There's time again we'll call. Head torch is on because we lost the light in this clag. The moisture content in the air is so high because we're in the cloud that head torch it almost doesn't work like you're getting so much reflection off of the water and we're trying to move quickly down here. We wanted to run all the way but it's proving difficult. Also this ground isn't conducive to running but yeah we've moved pretty quick so far. I'm not sure whether head torches are going to be a benefit at the minute. I guess we'll find out shortly. Point it straight down at my feet maybe. Right. Onward. We've got some nice views now as we're coming down. I mean kind of. It's obviously getting a bit dark but we're just in this kind of gap between the cloud above us and we've got a little bit of cloud right down in the valley below us here going down into the glen. Quite beautiful. And the rain's held off. Now I can see. Right. Onwards I guess. We're not far. And there's cold pizza in the car that we made. And crisps. And crisps. Quinoa crisps. Blinded. Sorry. Okay. Let's get this bus done for a Tuesday night adventure. We're all the way back down at the car in the car park. Two Monroes bagged. Good pace. Just over three and a half hours to do Bentulican and Crocodrain. Crocodrain. I was literally blanking there. Which is about 14km, 13.9km in total for the route and not a huge amount of ascent to be honest for two Monroes. Thousand and. I'd have to double check that. 1100ish. So yeah. But good. I feel good for it. We pushed really hard coming down at the end there. We hit a nice piece of sort of estate track coming out and so yeah we hit a really good pace coming down. It was harder higher up. It was really grassy and wet. You know you can't really run on that kind of ground. It's just tough. But overall feel good, feel strong. We both feel like we could have done more there which is always a nice. You know when you get down and you've got the adrenaline pumping everything feels great. So in the car going to eat some pizza and slowly make our way back home. Got about a two hour, two and a bit hour drive home. And get in bed and done. But once again thank you for joining us and if you like us and you want to see more of our adventures. I didn't catch that. Would you try again? Sorry Siri. Megan's Siri on watch is going mad. If you like to watch our stuff then subscribe to us on YouTube. Check us out on Instagram at Outdoor Intrigue. 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