Walkhighlands

Just submitting my non-snowy photos of and from Buachaille Etive Mor (hereafter known as BEM;-) after the comment I made on Graeme Dewar's Buachaille post that I had some similar piccies in green as opposed to snow. I'll just outline the route we took as well...

I'd always thought Coire na Tulaich had a bit of a reputation for it's rocks towards the top of the corrie wall so I didn't fancy ascending/descending that way so I'd spent some time on the Glen Etive road studying the side and thought that the Coire Cloiche Finne (SW of the main summit Stob Dearg) looked okay so we went up that way and, having no confidence in any of the other routes, back down the plain grass slopes to the south between Stob na Doire and Stob Coire Altrium. We did have a look down Coire na Tulaich though and I thought it looked fine, as did the route down the corrie on the northern side of where we descended. Previous to going up the mountain I thought it looked a horror but it turned out to be a nice day's walking so I'll probably do it again using the more usual routes.

Thanks mountain coward! Looks like you had a good day out on the big guy too. Definitely a mountain that deserves multiple ascents via various routes in different seasons.