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Beinn Resipol from campsite

Beinn Resipol from campsite


Postby m3doc » Fri Oct 13, 2017 4:19 pm

Route description: Beinn Resipol from Resipole campsite

Corbetts included on this walk: Beinn Resipol

Date walked: 12/07/2017

Time taken: 7.75 hours

Distance: 10.5 km

Ascent: 900m

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Parking adjacent to Resipole campsite reception/shop with permission. Hill path starts behind it, through wood, right at path intersection, across metal grid footbridge, through wooden kissing gate and immediately left on path through wood and across open area to cross stock fence stile to join a track coming up from the left. This is too steep and rough then boggy, after passing through a forestry gate, for biking. The track becomes a boggy path through another forestry gate, rises up by Allt Mhic Chiarain, across a flat boggy area then up to Glach Garbh to left of summit attained up steep slope. Clegs were about lower down with no breeze. It is a busy hill and young fit folk overtook as I plodded slowly - 4 hours to top, 3/4 hour on top and 3 hours down ascent route in time to saviour a Magnum and Solero from campsite shop before it shut :-)
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Resipole campsite with route off right behind reception/shop
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Right turn by bin at path intersection
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Across metal grid footbridge and left through gate
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Waterlogged path
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Path across stile joins track coming up from left
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Beiin Resipol appears from track, steep in places
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Rough wet track deteriorates after forestry gate
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Boggy track especially at gate opening becoming path heading up to left of summit
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Boggy path skirts to right of fence and forestry gate
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Path skirts to right of gorge and burn coming down from col to left of summit
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Path disappears crossing flat wet grassy area
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Path reappears heading to col left of summit
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Retrospect of ascent/descent route to Resipole on Loch Sunart
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From Glach Garbh across Loch Shiel to Acharacle, Kentra Bay and Rum
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WNW from summit - Loch Shiel, Acharacle, Kentra Bay and Rum
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NW to Skye and Rois-Bheinn
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NE with Loch Shiel and Sgor an Tarmachain
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Beinn Resipol summit cairn and disintegrated Vanessa to Skye
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East along ridge from disintegrated Vanessa to Garbh Bheinn
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South across Loch Sunart to distant Mull

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Re: Beinn Resipol from campsite

Postby Sunset tripper » Fri Oct 20, 2017 4:30 pm

Some great views you got there and a great hill. Was up there earlier this year myself. A hill that needs to be saved for a decent day.
All the best. :D
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Re: Beinn Resipol from campsite

Postby desmondo1 » Wed Oct 25, 2017 9:13 pm

Nice report and good snaps. I have been in Strontian twice this year with this hill as number 1 objective. However weather dictated otherwise, I want the view not the hill count, but it will happen.
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