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Looking for a Scramble Route

Looking for a Scramble Route


Postby liamando » Fri May 29, 2015 9:44 pm

Hi folks was looking if there were any good scramble routes (doesn't have to be munros) that are below glencoe on the west side of scotland. Or anything below Dalwhinnie if near the A9. The last two I done were Schiallion from the south side and Stoc a croin. Looking for a something that is bit longer in distance though.
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Re: Looking for a Scramble Route

Postby liamando » Fri May 29, 2015 9:53 pm

Or even a good website that lists a few scrambles
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Re: Looking for a Scramble Route

Postby LeithySuburbs » Fri May 29, 2015 10:08 pm

Search for scramble reports on here. Or better, buy Scrambles in Lochaber book. The UKC website lists most of the scrambles in that as well as loads of climbing routes and you can search by map.
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Re: Looking for a Scramble Route

Postby Mal Grey » Fri May 29, 2015 11:03 pm

Glencoe itself has loads. The book recommendation is good.

There are less south of there, (unless you head to Arran!), but there are a few. The Cobbler is probably the most famous.
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Re: Looking for a Scramble Route

Postby jmarkb » Sat May 30, 2015 2:07 pm

There's really very little of any decent length or quality. It's easy enough to find steep pathless terrain like the the south side of Schiehallion, but I wouldn't really count that as scrambling! There are some interesting easy winter mountaineering possibilities, but few of them are much more than steep walks in summer.
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Re: Looking for a Scramble Route

Postby Michael Thomson » Sat May 30, 2015 8:16 pm

South of the coe reduces the choice a bit but there are routes there if you look. Depends on how far you push scrambling into easy soloing.

Arrochar is the obvious bet, off the top of my head I'd say

The full traverse of the cobbler
spearhead buttress on narnain
central and south buttress on A'chrois
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