Day 1: Flew to Inverness, drove into Glen Affric and then bagged; NH194282 Toll Creagach (1054m) NH164273 Tom a’Choinich (1112m) [ad#alpine-flowers] Day 2: Backpacked in to the far end of loch Mullardoch to set up camp. Rained all day. See a map of our route (as a PDF file) here… If i were to do » read more »
May Bank Weekend we took a flight to Inverness and walked into Glen Affric for two nights at the remote Allt Beithe Youth Hostel. From there we bagged; An Socach (921m), Sgurr nan Ceathreamhnan (1151m), Mullach na Dheiragain (982m) – we used this route Mam Sodhail (1181m), Carn Eige (Carn Eighe) (1183m), Beinn Fhionnlaidh (1005m) then on to Tom a’Choinich (1112m) and Toll Creagach (1054m) – we used this route
This New Year we went to Laggan, and we climbed: Beinn a’Chaorainn (1052m) via Grade 1 East Ridge (not much snow) a day stuck in the house due to local flooding! attempted Carn Dearg (946m) but were stopped by a river Easy Gully on Creag Meagaidh (1128m) – Grade 1 (photos above)
After around ten years of patiently bagging Munros (predominantly in the Winter season), i finally had just Sgurr Nan Gillian and Ben More left, and i didn’t want to do Gillian in winter! So we went up at August Bank Holiday and gave ourselves a whole week (in case of bad weather) before we’d arranged » read more »
We took the advantage of the long Easter to May Bank Holiday period to whittle Heather’s remaining Munros down to just 2 left. We had booked a cottage in Ullapool but on the drive up we bagged Beinn Mheadhoin (1182m) pronounced “Ben Vane” in the Cairngorms, and also Ben Wyvis Glas Leathad Mor (1046m) after stopping » read more »
Author: Phil Newby