Ben Starav and neighbouring Munros ..Easter 2019,

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I saw a route very similar to this posted by others a few years ago, so as my friend Lee needed these Munros we hatched a plan to complete it over 3 days and 2 nights 
After a night in a B&B in Dumbarton we left the car at Victoria bridge at 8-30 am under blue skies,it was to be a hot wknd with 23-24c in the valleys and even 18c on some of the summits
We had two great high camps one 20 ft below the summit of Beinn nan Aighenan and the other on top of Meall nan Eun,the weather was very warm and held mostly. 
We had a little rain the 2 nd night and some strong winds and clag on the last 2 Munros .....a great return to these hills which i did first just over 20 yrs ago  

 As theres so many pics,even after much editing,for this trip ive just put a link up to my Google Album 

 https://photos.app.goo.gl/KYYPQLXvTvYNNi3S9

 There were another two blokes out on Ben Starav when we go to
the summit,he kindly let me use these four pics he took of me and Lee,thanks to David Main 













Ive picked just a few off my Album that i really liked and posted those 





















                                             

Heres a video i did of the trip,ive left music off as im sick of Youtube removing it....its a bit long as ive done all 3 days in the one video 

                     https://youtu.be/oPS9Y29oNDM

          Thanks for looking..Safe travels Peter

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