Brothers ridge Glen Shiel, others and a long walk to the car
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 6:29 pmThis was the club's July meet and we were all heading to either Ratagan YH or the Shielbridge Campsite at the back of the garage at the bottom of Glen Shiel. After a Friday night discussion over a few beers the largest group were to be heading off to do the South Shiel Ridge and others off to Skye, one to do three Grahams taking the ferry over. This left me with a choice of doing the SSR again a year to the day I last did it or heading off on my own to do some hills on the North side. Decision made I headed on up past the Clunie Hotel to the large parking area beyond on the North side of the road. Fit and ready to go by 0815hrs I left the car and headed East along the road until I reached a double metal gate. Now normally near this area has been a large forestry plantation but this has been cut down and the lower sloes of my first hill a corbett Am Bathach
- Car parking area off the main A87 East of Clunie Inn
- Double metal gate marks the entrance point to the hillside, there is a well used path up the whole way to the summit
- Looking up thepath on the South East shoulder of Am Bathach
- Looking back over Clunie Inn and the South Shiel Ridge
- Looking back over and down Loch Clunie, the best views are to the South today as most of the summits are in cloud to the North. Notice the area which was once woodland now totally cleared of trees.
- The twin summits of Am Bathach
- Looking South over Creag a' Mhaim the start of the SSR
- View to Ciste Dhubh, in the low cloud
- This wee chap should get a Blue Balloon, at the summit cairn of Ciste Dhubh
- Looking back along the ridge of CD the way I had come
- Looking back at the Eastern cliffs of CD
- Heading on back down to climb up the top (Sgurr an Fhuarail) on the left and then climb the second munro Aonach Meadhoin
- I met another walker as I was coming off CD and when I'm coming off Sgurr an Fhuarail I meet another walker. This view is taking from the summit looking down the SE ridge towards Clunie Inn
- Looking towards Aonach Meadhoin
- Section of ridge between Aonach Meadhoin and Sgurr a' Bhealaich Dheirg
- SBD summit is slightly North of the main Brothers ridge and there is a drystane dyke heading off towards the summit, clamber over some large rocks to gain access to the summit. This was where I met Molly the first doggie Munroist, or so I was told
- Molly
- Looking North along the rocky ridge to the summit
- Coming back from the summit cairn along the ridge
- Path between SBD and Saileag, the rocky section can easily by-passed on the North
- Heading on up Saileag
- Five sisters beyond the bealach where you take the rough and winding stoney path down to the West side of a large carpark. After gaining access to the road level if you don't have a second car you pray for a lift, no takers so this meant a five and a half mile walk along the road to where your car is parked. After a long day this really is a bummer so I had to drop into the Clunie Inn for a pint. I met up with a couple of WH members when I was having my drink outside, they had just completed the SSR and were about to walk back to their tents. So Terry and ooops forfot your name, nice to have met you and if you read this all the best.
- What a wonderful sight, the end is near. After a freshen up at the campsite a few of us went to the Kintail Lodge Hotel as 'Bod' had suggested it was a good place on his profile, and who did we meet up with, none other than WH member Kevin Woods who as you all know is doing all the munros in hundred days on behalf of Diabetes UK, it was very nice to meet you Keven and Good Luck with the remainder of your round.
So that's the reason the Chonzie report had so many hits 
who met you on the Brothers ridge walk. We passed you on the road walking to the Clunie Inn. 
We would have give you a lift, but the car was already full of collies and 2 very tired Glasgow lads who had just done the south shiel ridge, they had walked 3 mile on the road already 