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Meant to be a big camping weekend this either the Fisherfields or Ullapool but the weather was just no playin' the game likes.So these plans were binned,on the upside though the forecast for sunday was decent so we decided to go for the long awaited visit to the Ring of Steall.Left a car at each car park in Glen Nevis and bolted up the path towards the waterfalls to escape the midge at just after half 7.The Steall falls were impressive and crossing the wire bridge was a laugh but as it had bucketed down for the last few days getting across the bottom of the falls proved tricky.
- Jake and the Steall falls
- watch and learn dog,watch and learn
- Steall hut
- hmmmmm
Got fed up trying to find a dry way and ended up just wading it,wet feet for rest of day

.After that debacle it's up the path to An Gearanach,entered the clag soon so it was more or less head down and plod up the good zig zag path to the top,about 2 hours in and we were at the cairn.
- claggy climb up to An Gearanach
- Ian spending his birthday on a cold,wet An Gearanach
Spoke to 4 guys here,3 French and 1 Belgian,who were on holiday for a week who were also doing the ring,got the summit pic taken and then we were of along the ridge to An Garbhanach.This part is supposedly quite exposed,lucky for us then that we could see nothing along here and we got to Stob Coire a Chairn no probs

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- on the ridge to An Garbhanach
This is where we almost went wrong,think the foreign lads might have took a wrong turn here, looked like they headed off ahead of us towards the ridge to Na Gruagaichean,we almost did the same as we got totally discombobulated by our compass reading,set off down the same path only for the gps to tell us we were heading the wrong way,compass was right all along

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- confused.com on Stob Coire a Chairn
- looking back to An Gearanach
- towards Am Bodach
- Sgurr a Mhaim
- Binnien Mor and Na Gruagaichean to the right
Back to the top and the cloud lifted to show us exactly where we'd been and where we were meant to be going,by this time though the lads were halfway to the wrong hill.(if you are reading this boys and you did go the right way accept my apologies )The views were great now the steep climb to Am Bodach and the rest off the walk was now clear but this didn't last to long as we hit the clag just before the Devil' ridge

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- steep route to Am Bodach
Sat on Am Bodach for a while chatting to a couple from Dunblane before setting of again.
- Am Bodach
- a glimpse at the route ahead
The clag came in about the demoted Munro of Sgurr an Lubhair so we never seen much of the devil's ridge,there was one bit we avoided and used a bypass path but apart from that it was hard to tell how exposed it is.
- devil's ridge in deep clag
Never seen much on Sgurr a Mhaim either so we had a quick break at the big cairn before heading down,the views to Stob Ban and down to Fort William eventually opened up for us and we got back to the cars in about 7 hours 45 mins greeted again by the midge.
- Ian and Jake on Sgurr a Mhaim
- Jake gets his last warning for fartin'
This is a great walk,pity the forecast wasn't quite right but we did get some good spells ,one to re-visit on a better day that's for sure

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- Mullach Nan Coirean
- Stob Ban