Aonach Eagach with descent from hell

[thebaldfalcon]

chim cmininey

That's nos 8&9 in the bag.
fun day out, not as bad as thought but still demands attention and respect.
trip started out in clag and drizzle so wasn't sure if we would complete.Got to top
of The Bodach and descended onto the ridge, rocks were quite greasy so thought
we would carry on a bit.Viz was about 20m so couldn't see drama ahead.

We headed along a bit more and then like the flick of a light switch I could see for miles over
to Mull.
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Any how onwards we go, to be honest, the scrambling was not to difficult, I think with a head for heights
you are half way there.
took our time with tricky bits surveying best routes and it actually turned out very enjoyable.

got to summit of second munro Sgorr nam Fiannaidh and had lunch in a big bucket of a cairn.

As car was back up the hill at start point we decided we would try descent from Sgorr nam Fiannaidh
Headed down hill a bit passed a cairn then another and path headed of to left we took this and headed down the scree, well to the right of a gully (poss the Clachaig gully) wasn't dangerous but sore on the
legs. Followed a burn on right and came to a small waterfall there we found a path, but it didn't last for long, back onto steep grassy sloppes, on my arse a few times,over half way down noticed a path on other side of gully so scrambled down and over gully onto path and descent was ok from there.
After rigours of descent, 5km walk back up the road to the car was all we needed.

Would I do the ridge again, yes but only in good dry weather with a descent down to glencoe village

[Alan S]

Well done, especially for your 8th and 9th munros