by al78 » Thu Feb 14, 2019 11:58 pm
Blair Atholl to Aviemore via all munros en-route.
The heart of the Cairngorms. Start in Braemar, hike up Ben Avon and Beinn a Bhuird, turn west and keep as high as possible. You will eventually reach the mountains around Loch A'an, from there you can head north, west or south to bag more Munros, or there are lower level walks through the glens if you prefer.
The Monadhliath mountains, very few tracks, or even paths. If you head NW from Aviemore you will go over part of the vast upland plateau and down into Strathdearn (there is a small dead-end road in that glen). From there you are a long way from anywhere, whichever direction you head out of the glen you are hiking over heathery, largely pathless upland plateau.
Dalwhinnie to Fort William. Yuo can either take the low route through the glens which may largely be too pathed for your liking, or leabe the glen and head up over Ben Alder, past Corrour station, then either follow glen Nevis to Fort William or take one of the hardcore parallel routes over the Lochaber peaks (finishing on Ben Nevis), or the full Mammores ridge.
Fort William to Inverie via Glenfinnan, not sure how good the paths in the glens are, if there even are any. From Inverie you can continue heading in a general northerly direction using the path along Loch Hourn, then at Kinloch Hourn turn north and there is a side glen and pass which eventually will bring you to glen Shiel. You don't have to walk down glen Shiel itself with the main road, you can make use of a parallel glen and high pass and go over the munros near The Saddle, you can then join glen Sheil near Sheil Bridge. From there you could just keep going north and north east following glens and passes, you will pass the Falls of Glomach, and end up in Torridon eventually. I think this route is pretty much part of the Cape Wrath trail (it is not a marked way on the ground, large sections of it you have to find a route yourself).