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I'd looked at these 3 Corbetts a while back, thinking they have shoulders all coming together at the end of Glen Scaddle so they'd make a nice loop from there
Our first plan for this long weekend was to head far north though, so this route wasn't really on our radar until we were chilling in the van the night before, with no phone signal. I'd remembered there was one trip report for this same route though, taking around 10hrs
Just to make sure it was do-able for us I worked out rough stats on the map - guestimate 11km cycle to the bothy, around 16km walk in a loop, and counting contour lines I came up with around 1800m ascent. At our pace, that made for a ~13hr trip and since we'd be cycling >20km that would save some time
Stats I've put on this report are taken from my GPS
As it happened, we went back to sleep after the alarm went off so didn't set off until 8.30am
The cycle along Glen Scaddle was much better than expected! A bit bumpy but not the worst we've been on, and only a couple of times when I had to get off and push up hill
- cycle in
- almost at the bothy (which was closed)
I now realise why these hills aren't looped in a single walk... while the shoulders do come together, there are big drops between them, and a few extra tops thrown in
We both had 'moments' on this trip - Scoob's not keen on the steep, grassy climb with not much to hold on to, while one of the rocky gullys we climbed down brought out my Tourettes
All in all, another grand adventure
- heading for Carn na Nathrach first, full route mostly in sight here
- starting to see the fair drop in between the first 2 Corbetts
- Carn na Nathrach summit looking to Gleann an Dubh Choirein - we'd driven to the end of those trees yesterday!
- steep descent then pick our way up the other side
- the 803 top
- Sgurr Dhomhnuill is steep on all sides!
- Sgurr Dhomhnuill summit
- heading for the Graham next but there's another top in the way first!
- Sgurr na h'Ighinn, which was more craggy than our paper map showed! Didn't appear to be an easier way around or down it
- much relief when we got out of this gully, lol!
- view back to Sgurr Dhomhnuill and it's 'bonus' top
- Sgurr a'Chaorainn summit... just one more to go!
- final summit in our sights now
- sun setting behind us... getting a bit weary now!
- Ta Da! Beinn na h-Uamha summit :)
- now past sunset, we bailed down to pick up the path back to the bothy before it got too dark (although good moonlight tonight)
- finally back at the van! :)
