The brief for today was to get out early, spend 5 hours high up and get back down in decent time to drive home.
I decided on Buachaille Etive Beag ( both tops) the forecast and conditions where the same as the day before so i knew higher up on the north east aspects there would be deep snow to wade through., which would make it a slightly longer day than normal.
Before I left the car park another couple set off about twenty mins before, and I had caught them up with in 20 mins of me setting off, which was a shame as they were breaking trail for me, but I passed them and let them know I would break trail for them.
Apart from the anticipated deep snow in places and the strong gusts every so often, everything thing else was as expected about the journey. Like the day before I met a group, who I think were under instruction heading up both tops. (at one point they did seem to be on the wrong route up to the top!)
Because of my early start, I met more people going up the hill as I descended and i was back at the carpark at just over 5 hours .I left to go back home knowing that the temperatures were about to rise and I had probably got the best of that batch of winter!
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.
