
Bill is much better at early rising than I am and with a 6.30 alarm we managed to park at FW station around 7.30 on a beautiful clear morning: I took some photos from the train going down Loch Treig
Creag Ghuanach a 621m Graham above the end of the loch
The Eastern Mamores
Some of the Grey Corries
Leum Uilleum from Corrour
We arrived at a quite chilly and breezy Corrour around 8.30 where a rough FWD track - not on the map - heads directly towards the Leum Uilleum,eventually veering slightly left to go over a shoulder.
Getting nearer
Looking back to Loch Ossian and the Bealach Dubh - Ben Alder remained in cloud
Further R - Carn Dearg
We left the track where it flattened, and headed up the ridge - vestiges of a path.
First view of the Blackwater Reservoir
Zoomed - Stob na Cruaiche in front - the Achaladair Group behind - it's a long way across Rannoch Moor!
Eventually the ridge levelled off and the path became more distinct
N to the Grey Corries
Loch Treig and Loch Ossian with Stob Coire Sgriodain, Chno Dearg and Beinn na Lap between
Creise et al
It's quite along way across the plateau to the summit - the views are extensive but mainly quite distant
Black Mount and Etive hills
Zoomed -Glen Coe hills
The Ben, the Aonachs and Sgurr Choinnich Beag
We headed down to the 800m col, kept Left below Beinn a Bhric and continued W on the high ground.
Looking over the Blackwater and straight down the Lairig Gartain - Beinn a Chrulaiste in front on the L
The Easains and Loch Treig
The way ahead
These are rather characterless round hills, and it took us some time to orientate the map and work-out that the snowy peaks on the R were the Mamores (rather than the Ben), that the hill ahead with the tiny snow patch was Glas Bheinn and that the insignificant looking ridge in the foreground was the Graham Beinn na Cloiche.
The little Loch Chiarain comes in sight with the Bothy at its LH end
We planned on going over the Graham, as we would save some distance and the height gain (compared to going down and round the path past the bothy) was much the same.
We headed down directly towards the Graham, but the slope steepened sharply into a very unpleasant mix of scree and heather which seemed to take a long time to negotiate

Crossing the burn
definitely "far from the madding crowd" here

Looking back to the offending heather slope - the steep nasty 30m section can be seen about a quarter of the way down
The terrain leading up towards the ridge proved hard work - soft and boggy - and when we finally "topped out" on level ground it was clear that the summit was still at least a Km further N and 100m higher. We decided to kick the Graham into touch - this walk was already going to be quite long enough for a couple of old farts like us

The whole length of the reservoir
Zoomed view through the Lairig Gartain again
Looking over the N ridge of Glas Bheinn to the Ben and the Aonachs
Rather than climb straight up we decided to head for the N ridge just where it flattens. The going - up some grassy gullies - was much better than on the last ascent, and the ridge proved even easier.
Nearing the ridge - looking back over Beinn na Cloiche to Leum Uillieum
Loch Tom Ailein
Looking down the N ridge to the Easains
View N from the ridge
At the top we came upon two other walkers - what was the chance of that? They'd ascended in around "book" time - 3hr 20 from Kinlochleven, but had done another Corbett near Loch Eil in the morning

Views from Glas Bheinn
North
Zoomed - Grey Corries
Mamores
Loch Eilde Mor
and Loch Leven
Zoomed - The Aonach Eagach - a familiar silhouette - but it's back to front

Zoomed - Bidean
Panorama to the South
We started down towards the track that leads to the W end of Loch Eilde Mor. Our two companions set off later and soon overtook us, but we managed to keep them in sight - they knew the way

Somehow amongst the mess we missed the road leading to Mamore Lodge and headed down on the N bank of Allt na-h-Eilde. More monsters appeared further down and we followed the steep stony road until we were diverted on to woodland paths. We eventually arrived at the Tailrace - a friendly Inn with excellent food and beer - just after 7.00pm and relaxed there until the 9.30 bus to FW