Braeriach via its northern corries.
Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2013 9:15 pm
The modern off-road cycle makes this approach to the mountain a great deal less lengthy in time. I first came this way in 1960 from a camp at new year time close to Coylumbridge. Needless to say the summit was not reached...snow,short daylight etc. Anyway I think at that time we thought that Sgoran Dubh Mor was the senior summit then. We didn't even reach the top of Sgoran Dubh Beag. Since then I have been back many times to visit the tops here and camp, bivouac and to snowhole in a couple of the corries, shin up some rocky ridges and after a night camping at the top end of the loch a couple of arctic charr, kindly donated by a angler, were had for breakfast. The Einich trough is a great sanctuary.
Todays walk was started where the bike was left in the flowering common heather a little above where the track into the loch crosses the Beanaidh Bheag burn and where a feint path allows height to be gained up to around just over 600 metres. It requires the burn to be crossed and then upwards through some deep heather and some less difficult vegetation before the rougher rocks and gravels are reached and the broad ridge gained which can be followed to within a stones throw of Braeriach. A family group were having their lunch at the summit cairn in quite a gusty wind.
Todays walk was started where the bike was left in the flowering common heather a little above where the track into the loch crosses the Beanaidh Bheag burn and where a feint path allows height to be gained up to around just over 600 metres. It requires the burn to be crossed and then upwards through some deep heather and some less difficult vegetation before the rougher rocks and gravels are reached and the broad ridge gained which can be followed to within a stones throw of Braeriach. A family group were having their lunch at the summit cairn in quite a gusty wind.