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.
Snow lying glen level. heavy snow overnight. From Glen Carron parking, we crossed boggy non frozen terrain with 20-30cm of fresh. We traversed uphill, hard going breaking trail in deep powder to about 350m where we crossed the river and began ascent of Crag a Chait, from the flattening at 840m, we headed SW to the first summit Sgurr nan Ceacnnaichean. Thigh deep drifts at summit level. We traced steps back to Coir an Tuil Bhein, where we had to break trail to the second summit. Thigh deep drifts here again, with cloud cover making route choice more challenging in very flat light. We summited Moruisg in late afternoon, and followed the number NW off the side of the mountain, back at the car in the dark.
