The southern side of Glen Coe includes some very well-known mountains and can be split into two groups; the ones you can see from the A82 and the ones you can’t. Included in the former group is Buachaille Etive Mor, Buachaille Etive Beag, the Three Sisters and the Ballachulish Horseshoe, and in the latter, three Munros between Glen Creran and Glen Etive (Sgor na h-Ulaidh, Beinn Fhionnlaidh and Beinn Sgulaird). With huge amounts of climbing and walking in summer and winter, this area is also home to a large cairn built for Queen Victoria, or so the story goes. Includes all major peaks above 600m.
Gale force winds forced me to cut my day short today. The wind was coming from SW so my plan was to walk to the southern end of Buachaille Etive Mor, ascend Stob na Doire then Stob Coire altrium and then head NE with the wind at my back. Visability was poor on top and the. I managed the first two peaks (with much effort) but after being repeatedly blow off my feet trying to descend to the col towards Stob na Doire , I decided to retreat and leave it for another day!
