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.
Personal hillwalking day with friend. Our original plan was to cover Beinn Sguilard, Beinn Fhionnlaidh and possibly Sgurr na h-Ulaidh, but a weather forecast for persistent heavy rain inspired us to throttle back our aspirations to the central summit, with the option of continuing on to Beinn Sguilard if the forecast turned out to be overly pessimistic. Unfortunately, it was spot on, and we confined ourselves to a soggy outing on Beinn Fhionnlaidh, followed by a visit to the Real Food Cafe.
