A Skye virgin no more, Garbh-bheinn

[Johnny Corbett]

After our last few lucky days with the weather, it was now changing so we decided on a shorter walk today. Skye was on the agenda as none of us had ever walked on Skye. We chose Belig and Garbh-bheinn as our first taste of Skye, waiting till 2pm before starting as it was supposed to clear in the afternoon, it didn't. We set off from the waterfall following the stream up, unfortunately we followed it too far and couldn't cross it so decided to leave the Graham and just do the Corbett. We then made our way over to Garbh-bheinns ridge where a path led up to 489mark then continued to the scree and rocky sections. The weather was not good and it was slippy at times and 5mins from the summit Jimmy slid down the scree and though he did not get injured, apart from a few scrapes, he had torn his boot. Mo was also not happy with the conditions and Jimmy shouted up that they would just wait for me there. I continued up and had a wee slide myself at a little down climb just before the summit when my rucksack caught so i took it off then carried on over the 10 metre narrow ridge taking extra care with the high winds and slippy terrain. I took a quick photo of the summit before returning to Jimmy and Mo. Jimmy and Mo did say if they were on a Munro they would have continued but they've just not caught the Corbett bug yet and i don't think Mo ever will as she claims the ones shes done have been harder than her Munros. This was my 99th Corbett and i had the 100th planned for the following day, hence the reason i carried on.

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Belig

Stream

Waterfall

On the ridge

Jimmy says we've summited ive said we've no

Jimmy on the rocky scree

The summit

Narrow ridge

Back with Jimmy and Mo

[mgmt!]

well done johnny, glad youve eventually got over to skye, pity the weather wasnt on your side, the ridges and scree on skye arnt pleasent when wet.

[mountain thyme]

nice one johnny.. although rubbish weather... what did you say to me last week... that i was to walk with you because you always brought the weather! must be me that brings the decent weather

[Bod]

Skye, Yes!!! There will be no stopping you now

[Johnny Corbett]

well done johnny, glad youve eventually got over to skye, pity the weather wasnt on your side, the ridges and scree on skye arnt pleasent when wet.

Cheers Michael, will wait till it's dry for my next visit

nice one johnny.. although rubbish weather... what did you say to me last week... that i was to walk with you because you always brought the weather! must be me that brings the decent weather

Cheers MT

Skye, Yes!!! There will be no stopping you now

Thanks Bod, i'll be pulling out some of your reports for my next visit

[kevsbald]

Yes, that looks like Skye.

[BlackPanther]

Garbh-bheinn is a cracker Shame about the clag... I think it's the best viewpoint to the Cuillin Ridge. Just to tease a bit, here is what you missed...

Cuillin Ridge from the summit of Garbh-bheinn

[ChrisW]

Good stuff JC though bad luck with the weather. Thought things were going to go badly wrong with the tumbles, glad they didn't. I'll bet you are itching to get to the ton now

[pollyh33]

Well done JC!

I assume you're planning to head back to Skye ASAP.

I'm heading back in September and hopefully get similar conditions to those we had in April.

Here's the view we got from Bla Bheinn

[Johnny Corbett]

Thanks for rubbing it in Mrs Panther & Mrs Polly I would never dream of posting up views like that Skye will probably have to wait till next year Polly. Cheers

[monty]

Shame about the weather JC but well done for persevering. Not sure i would have continued unless it was a munro

[Johnny Corbett]

Shame about the weather JC but well done for persevering. Not sure i would have continued unless it was a munro

Cheers Monty, next year you'll be a differant man