As I promised myself after doing Suilven, I did Stac Pollaidh last Tuesday. The plan was originally to to do it the day before which was much less shiny as can be seen below:
- Monday: Too many clouds
- Tuesday: That's more like it!
I won't talk too much about the walk which you can already find in other reports moreover, pictures are worth a thousand words!
- The start, just on the other side of the car park
- Scaring off deers!
- Cul Beag
- Suilven starting to show
- Suilven with a skirt of clouds
- Where I'm coming from
The first cairn is reached fairly easily however, given the conditions it would have been a shame not to try the true summit. So I decided to give it a go. However, I thought the "famous rock blocking the summit" would be easier to find, basically I though it could be seen from the first cairn. I was wrong so this meant some wandering around to find the route. This was very entertaining, Stac Pollaidh kind of brought me back to my childhood when I was trying to climb everything I could find only in a much bigger scale, a grown up's playground basically!
- The true summit in view
- View to the south
- View to the east
- View to the north
- Some of the pinnacles up there
- Panorama to the south
- Panorama to the north
In the end I was very pleased of doing the true summit as this is pretty nice in such weather and could say yes when people later asked me if I went to the true summit
.I've done a little bit of filming with my GoPro and will try to put together a video showing a way to the true summit.Cheers
