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.
With Phil Blackwood to Lost Valley parking and up trail to Coire Gabheil. We only found the zig zags after a massive detour, first up to the Lost Valley, and then up beside the screes of Gearr Aonach and along the lowest grassy ledge. We stopped beside a massive boulder on the ledge for a drink, and soloed up a slabby rock step. A slight descent to the right and we found the path. We should have turned aside from the Lost Valley path just above the stile, but we had missed the turn.
