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An evening in Skye - An Coileach

An evening in Skye - An Coileach


Postby alanmurray » Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:38 pm

Date walked: 13/07/2010

Time taken: 2 hours

Ascent: 800m

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With a few hours to spare after work on Skye, thought I'd go for a hill.

An Coileach, beside Glamiag, a hill I've been wanting to climb for a few years.

Very steep ascent, just followed the fenceline
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Steep ascent


Near the top with great views across Skye
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Near the top


At the summit

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summit2
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Summit3

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Summit 4


On way down - almost 10pm - still plenty of light
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On way down
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Re: An evening in Skye - An Coileach

Postby Caberfeidh » Wed Oct 13, 2010 10:06 am

Brilliant photos there, looks like you had a fantastic day. I don't even remember weather like that on Skye, I just seemed to get the rain! You can see my croft in some of those photies. :D
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Re: An evening in Skye - An Coileach

Postby malky_c » Wed Oct 13, 2010 10:24 am

Afternoons/evenings like that are just great after work, aren't they? I really like the views from there. Next time I go up Glamaig I think I'll go that way. Beinn Dearg Mhor looks really impressive from that angle 8)
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Re: An evening in Skye - An Coileach

Postby blueyed » Wed Oct 13, 2010 10:56 am

lovely pictures!
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Re: An evening in Skye - An Coileach

Postby Scotjamie » Wed Oct 13, 2010 2:51 pm

Nice one Alan - great pics
.....and we now know the location of Caberfeidh's croft....(surgery)
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Re: An evening in Skye - An Coileach

Postby alanmurray » Wed Oct 13, 2010 4:57 pm

Thanks for the replies.

Photos still don't do the view justice.
Wanted to summit on Glamaig but work colleagues were waiting for me in the layby at the bottom, so didn't have time.
The sun was beginning to set as I was near the bottom, and the reds on the mountains were fantastic.
One of the best walks for a while.
I was walking on my own, not actually done that before - great going up, but coming down was tight for time and took a wrong route and got " the fear" - had to go back up the hill until I found my bearings - sweating like a dug in heat.

From layby on A87 to summit in 1 hour 15mins - so ideal evening walk.
No path tho' - just follow the fenceline - quite steep in places, and a debris slide to negotiate , although fencing wire helped the ascent and descent.

Still to explore the mountains of Skye - Sligichan area looks great.
Don't look at the vertical alignment of the carriageway (Malky_C) - it's a bit fecked (engineering term)

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Skye1

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