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With a weekend off work, no oncall and looking for somewhere closeby, I decided to head to Arrochar. There was a good post on this one from Gavin99 so pretty much took into consideration his recommendations for this walk.
Parked in the small layby on the right just before the stony walled bridge (NN243060) and started the walk at 8am.
- stony bridge at the start
Down over the footbridge, up the well worn path, and through the broken fence onto the hillside. The cloud was low and there were no views at all of the hill in question.
- scary bridge
A path heads off north towards Beinn Ime.
- luibhean in the cloud
After 300m headed west and up the broad ridge, dodging quite a few rocky outcrops, towards the summit. The SMC book says a short and easy ascent 1hour 40, managed it in 1 hour and 30 minutes, but found it a long hard slog to the summit. However, once there the views were worth it!
- summit cairn.. and ? pelvis of some small animal
- summit pic.. the cobbler behind
- beinn ime
- cobbler and narnain
Back down the broad ridge, picking up the path and back to the car in 2hours 30.
- cars in sight