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The Saddle Tops

The Saddle Tops

Postby Mrs Scoob » Thu Oct 01, 2020 10:41 pm

Route description: The Saddle, Forcan Ridge and Sgùrr na Sgìne

Munros included on this walk: The Saddle

Date walked: 27/09/2020

Time taken: 8.3 hours

Distance: 16.9 km

Ascent: 1508m

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End of our holidays... after yesterday's south Cuillin route this was a more gentle ridge but still a nice wee scramble :D We'd come over from Skye in the morning so this was a later start today. After the 2 outlying Tops, we re-assessed our route and decided to leave Sgurr na Sgine for another day.


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View behind - we'd made a detour to take in that Graham on our last trip here
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On the Forcan Ridge
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Trig after The Saddle's summit with our new Tops beyond
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View from the far Top, Sgurr Leac nan Each
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From the same summit, but looking back to our route to get here
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Heading back the same way; rays of sunshine behind
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Heading down under The Saddle, we figured if we'd carried on up the other side we'd have been coming back off Sgurr na Sgine in the dark, with even more tired legs... so we decided to leave that for now
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Our stats; figures were closer today
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