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Beinn Narnain and Beinn Ime route description
Two of my favourite mountains in one of my favourite area and not too far from the house!! I climbed these mountains several times from all angles, together or on their own. In 2006, when I started my original sponsership attempt to complete all Munros within 5 years, I started my Munro count again as I was on a time restraint. These two were numbers 1 and 2 on New Years Day under heavy snow!! I climbed Beinn Ime first from Butterbridge along the stream that runs between the Munro and Beinn Luibhean, then followed with Beinn Narnain. I've also climbed Beinn Ime from Glen Kinglas and over Beinn Chorranach. A excellent alternative for Beinn Narnain is along the ridge from A'Chrois which is fun in the wet and poor visibility, stunning in good weather though!!
The last time I reached the summit of Beinn Narnain was from the Succoth end of Arrochar. I had come up on the sleeper and was intending catch the afternoon train back, so wouldn't have had time to take in Beinn Ime as well. It's still a great route of ascent. A bit of hands on and 926m of straight ascent from sea-level!! Oh and the views are stunning!! There are lots of rocks on this route as well as the stone blocks from the hydro project, this is a tricky route in the wet. Ignore all tracks to the left and right and head straight up. What looks like the summit isn't!! It's Cruach nam Miseag and once at the top, you get a great view of what's ahead. It looks imposing, but it isn't really. Once you've negotiated the scrambling, the Spearhead is obviouly in front of you!! On the right, a bit of pulling up and you are almost at the summit. There is a shelter cairn on the plateau which can come in handy!! Not needed on this day though!!
An excellent mountain in an area that I would recommend to anyone. 3 Munros and some difficult Corbetts.
On the approach from Cruach nam Miseag was where I heard the Golden Eagle chick, mentioned in a previous post. It was very loud and continous but stopped abruptly, so I'd obviously got too close.