Landslide near Loch Quoich dam update.
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2019 7:28 pm
Took a ride out to the landslide to have a look at what is going on there. As it was a Sunday, no work going on, so went up to where the landslide occurred in December. Got to the point where the road is split by the slide, and it is a pretty deep gully there. Was going to cross it to the dam, but then a chap turned up telling me that I couldn't do that as the land is still unstable. He was very helpful though and told me that the road would not be opening until November at the earliest. Which I had to say surprised me as I had heard it would be about May. He did tell me that I could go back down 100m to the access road to the base of the dam, and then go up the ground to the other side of the dam wall, and then cross over at the top of the wall back to the road. You can't go up beside the road side of the wall, as a the top is just a wall, and a spillway.
He said that hillwalkers can take this route, providing that work wasn't going on that would make this unsafe, but there doesn't seem to be any way of finding out if this would be the case in advance. Basically the distances are about 1.75 miles from the gate across the road at Kingie to the dam, and then another 3.5 miles to the start of the Gleouraich track and another 1.75 miles to the start of the Sgurr a'Mhaoraich track. Obviously if you are doing Gairich it only adds on the extra nearly 2 miles from the gate at Kingie. I took my bike, it wasn't too hard to push it up besides the dam wall. Obviously it you are just going to walk it will add on a few hours to doing these hills.
Gate at Kingie
Road washed away
Turned left here down to the dam wall
Sign telling you not to go up the northern side of the wall
Walk around this building and up the other side
Landslide
Sgurr a'Mhaoraich track start
Gairich, Sgurr an Fhuarain and Sgurr Mor across Loch Oich
Ben Tee across Loch Garry
He said that hillwalkers can take this route, providing that work wasn't going on that would make this unsafe, but there doesn't seem to be any way of finding out if this would be the case in advance. Basically the distances are about 1.75 miles from the gate across the road at Kingie to the dam, and then another 3.5 miles to the start of the Gleouraich track and another 1.75 miles to the start of the Sgurr a'Mhaoraich track. Obviously if you are doing Gairich it only adds on the extra nearly 2 miles from the gate at Kingie. I took my bike, it wasn't too hard to push it up besides the dam wall. Obviously it you are just going to walk it will add on a few hours to doing these hills.
Gate at Kingie
Road washed away
Turned left here down to the dam wall
Sign telling you not to go up the northern side of the wall
Walk around this building and up the other side
Landslide
Sgurr a'Mhaoraich track start
Gairich, Sgurr an Fhuarain and Sgurr Mor across Loch Oich
Ben Tee across Loch Garry