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Wild Night on Suilven

Wild Night on Suilven

by jmcsporran » Fri Oct 14, 2016 2:14 pm

Route description: Suilven

Fionas included on this walk: Suilven

Date walked: 11/10/2016

Time taken: 4.5 hours

Distance: 11 km

Ascent: 731m

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Re: Wild Night on Suilven

Postby Mal Grey » Sun Nov 20, 2016 10:59 pm

Outstanding images, and lots of effort put in to get them.

The views from the hills of Assynt are the best anywhere when the weather plays ball. Shame about the wind, but it probably adds to the memory of an epic trip.

Last time we were there we cheated - we paddled in by canoe and wild camped by Fionn Loch. An amazing experience.
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Re: Wild Night on Suilven

Postby EACHANN AN DOIRE » Tue Nov 22, 2016 10:12 pm

Absolutely wonderful photos - love it!
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Re: Wild Night on Suilven

Postby Nina93 » Thu Oct 05, 2017 11:20 am

Amazing photos :shock: I have a question though about hiking up Suilven: is there any scrambling involved before reaching the ridge itself?
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Re: Wild Night on Suilven

Postby Sgurr » Thu Oct 05, 2017 8:41 pm

Not really any scrambling. You climb where the shadow is, and it looks formidable from a distance, but on the right you can see the view looking down, and although we were glad of our poles, we never really used our hands.

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Re: Wild Night on Suilven

Postby spiderwebb » Fri Oct 06, 2017 7:39 pm

Stunning, superb photos :D
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Re: Wild Night on Suilven

Postby steviesea » Sat Oct 07, 2017 12:37 am

Looking at your awesome photos I thought blooming heck... (also the polite version :wink: )
:clap: outstanding
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Re: Wild Night on Suilven

Postby whodaresbags » Fri Oct 09, 2020 2:41 pm

Brilliant mate, photos are great. I proposed to my wife on top so love looking at photos of Suilven
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