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.
Starting from Glen Cannich after a valley camp we headed along loch mullardoch. The forcast improving as the day went on so we opted to walk the loch side first as opposed to what my guidebook reccomended. We walked this rather than use the small boat passsenger ferry enjoying a longer day out and saving some money! The undulating boggy path was quite hard work though not as bad as described and there is a fairly distint trod most times. We first climbed An Socach via its SSE ridge, handrailing the steep side of the coire to our right on a fine path. From here we walked the ridge touching some subsidery tops on the way to An Riabhachan. Snow had fallen over night so in places we got brilliant wintery views. The snow becoming slushy and not lasting long. We enjoyed views descending the a bealach then a steep climb up to the 1150m Sgur Na Lapaich. This followed by an impressive descent with great views south to a small loch and coire. From Carn Nan Gobhar the paths were disappearing as walkers spread across the hillside, we followed a nose down and skirted round another top then followed a straight line down to the track picking an easy way through the tussock heather and lumpy hillside. Once down it was off the the Pub at the head of Glen Affric!
