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.
I had wanted to do this walk for a while, and took advantage of a temporary warm inversion spell in December to organise it as a Meetup. The plan was to scramble up Stob a' Ghlais Choire, from there to ascend to the summit of Creise, and from there to go to the summit of the neighbouring Corbett, Beinn Mhic Chasgaig. There were five of us, and we left a car near the Allt a' Chaorainn on the Glen Etive road before driving to the Glencoe Mountain Resort. From there we headed to Stob a' Ghlais Choire. Most of the group thought the scramble was too unnerving, so we went up the steep area between two rock bands. Myself and another group member did a small part of the scramble, which was less scary than it looked. The rest of the walk went without a hitch, and we had a fantastic day.
