Lochaber-based running guide Keri Wallace recently fulfilled a long-held ambition to complete Tranter's Round in winter, in the process setting a new women's winter record of 21 hours and 5 minutes. "I honestly had no idea it would take me three years of frustration to find a window that worked" she tells us, in this account of a dream mountain run on which the finishing time came very much second to the overall quality of the experience.
My last visit to the top of Carn Mor Dearg coincided with a guy just coming off the Ben & CMD Arete doing the Tranter Round in microspikes and heavy duty trainers. But it was amazing conditions with firm snow and very settled cold weather. We actually chatted for about 5 minutes which was generous of him considering he was up against the clock.
> My last visit to the top of Carn Mor Dearg coincided with a guy just coming off the Ben & CMD Arete doing the Tranter Round in microspikes and heavy duty trainers. But it was amazing conditions with firm snow and very settled cold weather. We actually chatted for about 5 minutes which was generous of him considering he was up against the clock.