{"id":2351,"date":"2010-07-13T23:52:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T22:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/?p=2351"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:21:14","slug":"more-devils-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/more-devils-work.html","title":{"rendered":"More Devil’s work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night the staircase, tonight the ridge…<\/p>\n

Met Jon up by Lochan Coire nam Miseach this evening to check out another of Yiannis Tridimas’s outflanking manoeuvres (this time a way of skirting the Devil’s Ridge<\/a> in one direction), but who knows whether it saves any time or not? On the anti-clockwise traverse we’re looking at, it’s basically substituting a contouring line and climb up a kind of grassy double trough (unmistakable when you get there) below Sgurr a’ Mhaim for the normal climb by zigzag stalkers’ path above the Lochan and run along the ridge. But the spacing of the arrows (one every five minutes?) on the GPS track seems to suggest that the ridge is every bit as quick as the avoiding line and the deciding factor probably boils down to whether or not it’s going to take longer than about 15 minutes up the path (marked in blue on the maps, with the toe of the ‘low rock outcrop’ affecting the contouring line shown as a blue dot).<\/p>\n

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So there’s some food for thought, with the benefits of following the established path over the top possibly just tipping the balance in favour of the ridge in both directions. Apart from that, tonight’s stats for me (with Jon returning north to Glen Nevis) come out at 10.55 miles and 4,750 ft in 3hrs 29mins, with just 3hrs 5mins actually recorded as ‘moving time’ due to some hanging about (GPS unusually lost signal on the way up!) and discussion of the route.<\/p>\n

Something else I was looking at this afternoon was comparing my 2005 Tranter’s Round splits<\/a> to Charlie Ramsay’s original schedule<\/a>. And, while I’ve always known that my Tranter ended with more of a whimper than a bang as I squandered a good two or three hours on the second half, perhaps the comparison’s not as completely one-sided as I feared (green text shows where I was quicker and red where Charlie was quicker, with some adjustments made in final column to reflect known factors) with possibly only the ascent and descent of the Ben at the end remaining unmitigated disasters for me! :-O<\/p>\n

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