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Details

Date : 11/12/2018

Duration : 5-8 hours

Style : Leader / Supervisor

Type : Quality Mountain Day (QMD)

Weather : Cloudy - poor visibility

Wind : Moderate wind

Camping Type : Valley camp

Nights Camping : 2

Mountains : A'Chralaig

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Description

Steep ascent up grass slopes from A87 adjacent to Loch Cuanie. Pick up the broad summit ridge and climb up to fine summit cairn. Carry on over to Stob Coire na Cralaig. Descent was from summit of Stob Coire na Cralaig follow broad ridge south west to valley and stalkers track following course of Allt a Chaorainn Mholt back to start point on A87.
Cloudy with poor visibility until the summit and then the cloud thinned and gave great views in all directions.

Area : Glen Affric and Kintail

South of Loch Mullardoch you will find the Glen Affric and Kintail area whose southern boundary is the A87 road to Inverness. The Five Sisters of Kintail, Beinn Fhada, Sgurr nan Ceathreamhnan and Carn Eighe are just some of the impressive peaks in this area, and all have their own unique selling points such as remoteness, size, steepness or height. As a result, peaks in the list are all over 900m.

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