Canisp traverse

[chazzyboy19]

This was a Scottish Midweek Mountaineering Club meet at Inchnadamph. Left a car at the walkers car park near Glencanisp lodge and got dropped off at the lay-by on the A837 near Loch Awe. Followed the track down to the bridge and crossed some spongy ground till about the 350m contour where underfoot conditions improved. There are a few cairns showing best ways, but we just aimed up toward the obvious to which unfortunately was in the mist. There are two stone shelter walls the northern one is the summit but you have to return to the southern shelter before heading down the west ridge, steep in places but no real difficulty. Once out of the mist views to suilven were good. There is a lochan at the foot of the west ridge, and we kept south of this and contoured round to NC189194, where there is a small cairn and the end of an ATV track which we followed down to the main Elphin to Lochinver path, which we followed back to Glencanisp lodge and the car.