Breabag there and back, quickest route

[gld73]

Having car camped at the quarry entrance down the road, it was an early arrival at the Bone Caves car park. Didn't visit the caves again, just took the good path up to just past the caves, then rather than continue up the WH route, I branched off right following the route of a tributary burn. Quite a straightforward route this, heads more directly to Breabag and avoids steep gully sides to climb out of. Once up towards the higher, rockier parts of Breabag it would be confusing in cloud, but today was lovely and clear; I just kept heading up to roughly where I knew the summit was, before spotting the cairn once on the summit plateau.

Setting off up the Bone Caves path, water well and truly above ground in this stretch of the burn.

Nowhere near as impressive in a photo - water just appearing from the ground

Continuing up alongside the dry river bed, Bone Caves up to the right

Following the tributary burn up directly to Breabag, by now just a small burn rather than the bigger gully it was further down

A sunbathing slightly rusty crowbar randomly sitting on a rock. No path at this point, it could have been there for days or years, no idea why anyone would have brought it here or left it here!

Looking back down the direct route taken, basically following the direct line down the centre of the photo. Yesterday's evening walk of Cansip directly across the way.

Breabag summit

Suilven and Canisp to the west

Ben More Coigach, Cul Beag and Cul Mor to the south west

Assynt munros to the north

Quinag

Intended to take the same route back, but ended up heading down too soon and clambering across steeper, harder terrain to get back to the burn. Once back at it, followed my intial route back to the car, a few people around now, visiting the caves.

Managed to fit in a sub-2k near Ullapool on the way home to make the most of the 2 days in the area (Beinn Eilideach - I'd been up to the trig point and shelter cairn before, thinking that was the summit, but since discovered it's about 100m away https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=112957) . Anyway, 4 hills done, a great 2 day ad-hoc trip.

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[The English Alpinist]

I did Breabag on the end of the Assynt Munros last August, and descended via the bone caves, except I dropped off the summit a bit further north. Nice to see ti again in your pics!

[jmarkb]

The crowbar likely belongs to cavers - there has been a lot of exploration/digging in the area, which has the longest cave systems in Scotland.

[gld73]

The crowbar likely belongs to cavers - there has been a lot of exploration/digging in the area, which has the longest cave systems in Scotland.

Ah, thanks for the info. I did see some ropes and a pulley abandoned in the gully much lower down and wondered what they were for; I guess related to the caving you referred to. Maybe someone found a crowbar too and walked up the hill with it in lieu of an ice-axe for the final ascent ...