My 100th Corbett or is it my 99th and a half?

[Johnny Corbett]

First of all the reason behind the title. There are two Corbetts in Kintail, Sgurr a' Bhac Chaolais & Buidhe Bheinn, both are 885m but there is not enough drop between them for them both to be Corbetts so they are classed as siamese twins and both have to be climbed by the purist to claim the Corbett. As i have only climbed Sgurr a' Bhac Chaolais so far some may say i've only did 99 and a half Corbetts or probably just 99 but for the time being i'll take Sgurr a' Chaorachain as my 100th. Now to the report, again like yesterday the weather was not good but was to clear in the afternoon so i left it till later before heading off. I arrived at the start at 1.30pm after the drive up the steep twisting road which reminded me of the film, The Italian Job, even more so on my way back as four Minis raced up behind me. As it was still claggy when i arrived i had lunch in the car studied the map and wondered if i shoud go or not. I decided to give it a go at 2pm, thinking i'd walk to the mast, stick to the crest of the ridge then over to the other ridge and walk to the summit, what could go wrong So i arrive at the mast check the map again and go with my plan, 20mins later i arrive back at the mast after walking round in circle . Do i give up or do i do it properly and get the compass out with the map? I get map and compass out and see i have to head south for 10-15mins and then head east and hopefully on to the summit. It all went like clockwork as i headed east i picked up the path passed over several cairns made it to the summit. I returned the same way, happy to have notched up my hundreth and also happy with my navigation and the morale of the story is allways use map and compass. I also took a photo of the cairns i passed on the way back down.

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The start

The mast

Cairn when walking round in a circle

North east ridge

Coire a' Chaorachain

Heading towards the summit

The summit

Cairn 1

Cairn 2

Cairn 3

A wee view

Back at the mast

[mountain thyme]

Round in a wee circle because the real expedition leaders werent there to guide you
well done on reaching 100

[Bod]

100 hundred corbetts Johnny, great effort, one to respect very much

[Graeme D]

Looks like a bit of a pea souper. Two big landmarks recently JC - 50 sub2Ks and now the century of Ronnies! Hat off! I expect next time I log in here you'll have completed the Munros .......

[Stuart Angus]

100 Corbetts is very cool JC ............looks like the weather was too though!

[Johnny Corbett]

Round in a wee circle because the real expedition leaders werent there to guide you
well done on reaching 100

Cheers MT, where would i be without my leaders

100 hundred corbetts Johnny, great effort, one to respect very much

Thanks Bod

Looks like a bit of a pea souper. Two big landmarks recently JC - 50 sub2Ks and now the century of Ronnies! Hat off! I expect next time I log in here you'll have completed the Munros .......

Cheers Graeme, another 2-3years for Munro compleation i think

100 Corbetts is very cool JC ............looks like the weather was too though!

Thanks Stuart i'd been quite busy getting to 100 on this trip,with some great days so wasn't too bothered by the weather Sun would have been good though