Recent runs and Mick Tighe's museum

Last week we went to Bohuntin to the home of Mick and Cathy Tighe. Mick is a mountain guide who has decades of experience in the mountains  both for pleasure, for clients and  in the Lochaber Mountain Rescue. He has also amassed a horde of mountaineering artefacts from skis to clothing and books.He has now started a museum which you can view on line on Scottish mountain heritage collection.  It was open to the public for the first two weeks of October.
 After spending a happy hour looking at the collection, we sat in the sunshine drinking  coffee eating cake and  chatting with other friends who had come to see the artefacts. I have never had such great welcome at a museum!
 Bohuntin is at the start of a glen famous or its 'parallel roads' These are a series of horizontal and parallel identations in the slopes of the  valley sides. From a distance they look like perfectly enginered roads. For many years they puzzled scientists. Charles Darwin thought they marked the shore line of ancient seas but failed to find any sea shells to prove his theory. In 1840 Louis Agassiz postulated that glaciers had blocked the glen forming inland lakes . The freeze thaw cycle had carved out the parallel roads. This is now accepted as the most likely cause.
We drove up the glen  and then climbed Beinn Iaruinn a beautiful hill with fantastic views  of the valley and  beyond.
During  the week I had to go to Lochaline a  village on the on the Sound of Mull, I sketched the picture below on the way home

The Road Near Laudale

On Friday I had the privilege to go to Rum. On the way back the ferry was accompanied for about 10 minutes by a pod of dolphins. I was amazed by the ease at which they kept pace with the boat.

Later on the sun sank lower between the islands of Rum on the right and Eigg on the left.

Below is a painting of the view (from a photo )

Today we ran up Melantee and then across to the CIC hut. It was surprisingly hot and  we were dripping with sweat on the climb. It is always a lovely run and today was no exception.

Towards the CIC hut ( Ben Nevis on the right)