
BIDEAN NAM BIAN - STOB COIRE SGREAMHACH
Group members: Equals - Holly and Myself
Wind speed: 20-25mph winds
Visibility: Very good
Equipment used: Ice axe and crampons were used.
Weather: Clear skies but very cold.
Temperature: -4 at 1200 but felt like -15 in the wind.
Description:
Parked at Loch Achtriochtan an walked up towards the North Face of Stob Coire turned right towards the Church Door Buttress.
Difficult and steep terrain to climb, crampons and an ice axe were essential!
Topped out and walked up towards Bidean and along the ridge to Stob coire Sgreamhach then back down lost valley to the car park. The decent into the lost valley was very steep but the snow had consolidated on those aspects giving us safe travel.
Area :
Glencoe South (Loch Linnhe To Loch Etive)
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.