A Week Munro bagging in Torridon based at Caladh at Allagin Shuas Slioch. Slioch via the ridge from its NE top Liathach’s Western Munro. Standard assent from the roadside camp site. We descended by the western ridge to Ben Alligin car park to avoid big snow cornicing. Day trip to Skye to get the Inn. Pin. with » read more »
Two days Munro Bagging in Glen Etive Bagging Stob Coir’an Albannaich (1044m) and Meall nan Eun (928m) at bottom of Glen Etive. Fantastic sunny day. High avalanche risk on SE to SW slopes, lots of patchy windslab and sastrugi to navigate through safely. Some crampon work needed on steep harder North slopes. Buchille Etive More » read more »
We’ve had a couple of Scottish trips this January. The first was a week at New Year spent in Newtonmore where we hired the local hostel. The weather was unusually cold and very snowy so we didn’t achieve very much due to high avalanche risk, but we did manage to bag Carn a’Chlamain from Blair » read more »
Day 1: Flew to Inverness, drove into Glen Affric and then bagged; NH194282 Toll Creagach (1054m) NH164273 Tom a’Choinich (1112m) [ad#alpine-flowers] Day 2: Backpacked in to the far end of loch Mullardoch to set up camp. Rained all day. See a map of our route (as a PDF file) here… If i were to do » read more »
Bagging Ben Alder, Beinn Bheoil, and some Fannichs. Sorry no photos this time
Author: Phil Newby