Carnan Cruithneachd from Morvich - great viewpoint

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Finished my shift at 9am with no overnight call-outs thank god (the 2 days had been busy), so a good breakfast at the Kyle Hotel before checkout and then off to find a hill to do on the way home. I'd abandoned my plans to do the grahams across the bridge in south Skye as they were in cloud, and the forecast was pretty mixed on the west coast generally - but along the A87 looked better weather than the Strathcarron road, so I headed in that direction. I've done most of the baggable summits from the A87 through Kintail, Glenshiel and Cluanie, but there was a graham I'd never really noticed which could be done from Morvich. Read a couple of walk reports giving the most straightforward route to it, so parked by the Kintail Mountain Rescue building (the landrover which had been at the Glenelg job with us a couple of days earlier was parked there) and did the initial route I've done 3 times for other hills, before branching off on the Glomach Falls path, through the forestry, then onwards to Carnan Cruithneachd. A nice looking hill when it comes into view.

Looking back

Back to Beinn Fhada and part of Five Sisters ridge

Carnan Cruithneachd appears ahead

An enjoyable walk, a lot of it on clear (if wet) tracks and paths before hopping a stream and heading up the pathless hill. After rain and snow melt I thought it would be wetter than it was, but I didn't need the wellies I'd taken with me, walking boots were absolutely fine. Think I may have been helped by muirburn on the lower slopes, the charred vegetation was very low and so easy to walk up the grassy ramps which avoided the craggy rocks. Fantastic viewpoint when I got to the top, and a nice summit cairn on the obvious high point. Returned the same way. Got lucky with the weather given the mixed forecast, 2 or 3 very light showers, but cloud always stayed above the hill - no midges or clegs at this time of year either.