Nic Bullivant - 80613

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Date : 28/04/2004

Duration : 5-8 hours

Style : Equals

Type : Quality Mountain Day (QMD)

Weather : Showers - Mixed/Poor Visibility

Wind : Moderate Wind

Camping Type : N/A

Nights Camping : 0

Mountains : Beinn Sgritheall Beinn Sgritheall East Top

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Description

Good club walk with Tom Bain, Bill Bracewell, Philip Blackwood, Dougie Allan on Beinn Sgritheall from Arnisdale. A bit more cloud but fewer showers, and a chill Northerly wind. Steep ascent to Bealach Arnisdale for a coffee stop overlooking the lochan where I camped in 1976. Steep ascent to the Eastern top, via a short slab climb which I managed to do. Phil and I arrived on the Eastern top to look for the other three and find them miles ahead, approaching the main summit ahead. Good views down to the right gave me an idea for a return route.
When we reached the main summit and had taken photographs and sheltered in the summit shelter and admired the decapitated trig point and generally enjoyed being there for long enough, we split. The others went down to the West, and I headed North East into Coire Min, the smooth corrie with an attractive lochan at its outflow, overlooked by an interesting crag. I skirted back to the Bealach and trotted down to Arnisdale for 3.15.

Area : Loch Eil To Glen Shiel (Incl Knoydart)

The Great Glen to the east, the A87 to the north and the A830 to the south separate this area from its surroundings and enclose an area of high mountains and low glens. The highest mountain is Sgurr na Ciche (1040m) and further north the South Glen Shiel Ridge is formed by a whopping seven Munros! Also in the area is The Saddle (1010m) which is home to the classic Forcan Ridge. Peaks in the mountains list are all above 900m.

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