Old Stag wrote:I don't know why people always say Beinn Chabhair. It is fine with one slightly boggy bit around the lochan.
I was going to say that as well - Beinn Chabhair is a lovely hill with lots of good non-boggy ways up. Quite a few of the blackspots being mentioned on this thread are only boggy because people follow each other about rather than looking properly at the maps and thinking up routes of their own.
Younger hillgoers (and I'm only 57) don't really know what used to be in play in terms of boggy ground even as recently as 30 years ago. There's not much doubt that a round of Munros was markedly more strenuous and generally harder then than now, and boggy approach paths played a significant part in that. One such place that sticks in the mind (and on the boots, as it were) was the forestry section leading up to the entrance to Corrie Fee - a world away from the easy made path of modern times. Some of the Coe paths were a real mess, likewise both parts of the Ben Lomond loop in places. And not on the Munros but on a very popular hill, the Leny/Lubnaig approach to Ben Ledi was swamp-like for considerable distances - so much so that lots of people used to go at it from the south, by a route now hardly ever used.