This area covers the peaks north of Loch Mullardoch and south of the A890/A832 Strathcarron to Garve road. The fourteen Munros in the area are handily split into two ridges either side of Glen Strathfarrar and a cluster of five to the north and west of Loch Monar. Sgurr na Lapaich (1150m) and An Riabhachan (1129) are the highest peaks on the southern side while Sgurr a’ Choire Ghlais (1083m) is the tallest on the northern side. Mountains in the list are all about 900m. The area to the south of this is Glen Affric and Kintail.
Myself, Rog Sutton and Jim Oakley set off with two bikes from Achintee (Strathcarron). We took the long track into Atterdale towards Bendronaig Bothy and up onto Bidean a'Choire Sheasgaich. With only two bikes between us, we organised a system of cycling/walking in stages, leaving bikes for the walker at set points along the route. It was a bit faffy but worked well. We parked the bikes up at Bendronaig Bothy where we stopped for a cup of tea and then headed up on foot up the Coire na Sorna towards Loch Calvie. We turned off the track and followed the Allt Coire Calvie river up towards the col between Sheasgaich and Lurg Mhor. On the ridge we turned west onto the summit. We took a more direct route back heading SW over Sail Riabhach (771m) and down to the bothy. On the extremely long trek out we returned to our bike sharing in stages.
