A few did a ridge,1 caught a fish but we crossed a bridge

[Johnny Corbett]

While the majority of the walkhighlands meet were strolling along a famous ridge, Andy was taking care of Gramps on another ridge, Janet was having a easy day after her bothy night and Dan was fishing, fishing? come on Dan have a word with yourself and take a leaf out of your Uncle Montys book while Kim and i decided to head north for some sunshine and climb Maol Chean-Dearg.
So off we headed up the A890 to just before Coulags where we parked up just before the bridge. We then walked over the bridge taking the track then path to the left, crossing another bridge and passing a bothy at the 3km mark. A further 1km up a small cairn marks where the paths split. Here we took the left fork upto the Bealach and from there up the ridge to the summit of Maol Chean-Dearg.The path is a good one but disappears at times as the terrain becomes rocky as you gain height.
It took us 3hours to get to the summit, stopping off at the bothy for a wee nosey enroute which we were very impressed with, Kim commenting on how she wouldn't mind spending a night in it and here was me going to book us a nice posh hotel for our next trip .
Back to the summit now. We got to the summit in dry warm weather,enjoyed the views over to Beinn Alligin and Liatach amongst others, had lunch, then the heavens opened. We then headed back to the Bealach, with the intention of climbing An Ruadh-Stac, well my intention was to climb it but Kim had other ideas. She took one look at it and said "no way" and gave me a health & safety lecture on how dangerous it might be in the wet conditions but i managed to convince her to give it a try and we got so far up when she called it a day, probably the right decision as the slabs were pretty wet and slippy. It is a fine looking hill and we will return in drier weather to conquer it and spend a night in the bothy. After failing on An Ruadh-Stac we headed back down the route we came up again stopping again at the bothy for a wee break before returning to the car and back to Shiel Bridge.

An Ruadh-Stac & Maol Chean-Dearg

The path

Sgorr Ruadh

The bridge in the cheesy title

The bothy & Sgorr Ruadh

The cairn marking the split

The zigzag path

Kim on the path

The impressive Corbett, An Ruadh-Stac

Enroute to Maol Chean Dearg

Beinn Damh

An Ruadh-Stac again

Beinn Alligin in distance with Liathach to the right

Liathach

Beinn Eighe

Beinn Liath Mhor, Sgorr Ruadh & Fua Tholl

At the summit

An Ruadh-Stac can we go up there Kim?

The bothy

Upstairs in the bothy

The bothy staircase

[iainwatson]

nice report jonny although looks like a different day weather wise to the soaking most of us took on sat on the ridges,that corbett looks fantastic and defo a dry ascent needed

[mountainstar]

Hard to believe that this was the same day that we were walking in the rain and cloud only a few miles down south from you both, great hills and bothy

[monty]

Nice report Johny.
Looks like you got the best of the weather. Some excellent photos too.

p.s. Dan done the brothers and sisters on Friday

[malky_c]

Further proof that the WH meet destination carries its own little rain cloud! Looks like a good decision for the day - nice views

[ChrisW]

Great report JC and some cracking pics to accompany it, you made the right decision turning back if it was slippery - looks a cracking walk though, I reckon you won't be too bothered about going back there again eh

[Graeme D]

Nice report Johhny and good to see how Kim and yourself spent the day. Where was this though???? The south of Spain????

[BlackPanther]

Lucky you... We did this Munro on a cloudy June day, missed the view from the summit
An Ruadh-Stac looks interesting and it's on my priority list, I hope to combine the two hills sometime in the future (and next time I'll pick a sunny day). Generally, in Torridon area, views are great from any mountain:

Maol Chean-dearg from Beinn Damh, October 2010

[Valerie]

Great report Johnny, you definitely made a good decision to head North are you sure this was the same day we were battered with wind and rain not so many miles away! lol. The bothy is fantastic, Bod and I were also saying it would be good to spend a night there too, think Bod fancies climbing the Corbett

[pollyh33]

What a report JC! How long did you pray to the sun gods to get that weather???

Fantastic photos

[Stretch]

Very nice you two, excellent use of Photoshop to put sunny skies in the pics! Sorry I didn't get a chance to really talk to you and Kim, but glad you made it to the meet-up.

[Bod]

Too right I want to climb An Ruadh Stac, was so tempted earlier this summer when we were up Moal Chean-dearg! And a soirree in the bothy would be cool! Great report Johnny, and it was wonderful to meet you and Kim over the weekend!

[walk aboot]

Great report, Johnny .

Was good to meet you and Kim...see you at the next one!

[andrewdoggett]

Well didn't you find the nice weather...

Andy was taking care of Gramps on another ridge

I may only get to laugh once at the great man, best make the most of it I'm thinking

[Johnny Corbett]

Thanks for all the comments, it was great to meet you all Possibly we could all climb the Corbett next year once Bod gets the meet up organised For those who commented who were not at the meet, thanks and nice photo Blackpanther.