This area is situated on the north-western tip of Scotland and contains 4 Munros (from biggest to smallest); Ben More Assynt (998m), Conival (987m), Ben Klibreck (962m) and Ben Hope (927m). Also included in the mountains list are all of the peaks above 700m. The southern boundary is the road which joins Ullapool to Lairg and then to the A9.
Suilven holds a very particular place in my personal mountain imagination. I was given a book when I was 16, the then recently published Gilbert/Wilson book `Wild Walks`, and pictures of Suilven and the implausibility it represented a mere `walk` particularly captured my imagination. It had taken 25years to actually get there, and a certain amount of cajouling my companions so we were going to do it properly. We walked out from near Lochinver the previous evening and camped on a breeazy knoll above the little lochans North of the hill and ate our Lochinver pies. The morning start was a determined pick round the rough slopes to make the Eastern most end and scramble directly up to climb over Meall Beag as well as the listed peaks. Armed with a rope and a little bit more against an alledged `bad step` , the route turned out to be fine without, just a reasonably interesting scramble though I suspect in wetter weather the option of protection may have been welcome. Highlight day of the trip. I've recorded this as 8+ hour trip - this includes the evening walk out prior to camping.
