The BEN

No not Ben Robinson, you gnomes!

Carl, Ceri, and Rob sent me this jolly little vid they made of our jaunt on Ben Nevis a while back.

I'd just like to point out that Taz "The Trainer" - the gent you may notice sporting a pair of baseball boots and carrying little other than an unexplained karrimat was not part of our party. To be fair to him he was pleasant, chatty, and gracious enough to turn back when he realised he was scaring us. And himself. We'd even had to stop chopping steps and put on crampons in a effort to stop him following us. Shame that 'cos Rob was really keen on hacking at snow and would carry his axe upside down most of the time in order to be ready to hack at any moment. He would grudgingly turn it round on any steeper, slippier slopes.

Taz also got top marks for leaving the pole I leant him to get down in the Ben Nevis Inn, where I picked it up later. Nice chap, if a little poorly shod.

This was a rare occasion when we had the summit of the Ben to ourselves. Funny that.

Thanks to Carl, Ceri, and  Rob for a great day. Oh, and I asked them what their hillwalking experience was and they said "None at all, not even in summer"



THE BEN from RobBB on Vimeo.