Cul Mor Assynt

[Cairngorm creeper]

I am retrospectively trying catch up with walk reports for last year and when I came to Cul Mor my notes and many of the photos were missing. I not sure why, but it has resulted in a sketchy and rather hazy report.
One of the objectives in our visit to Cul Mor was to visit the crags on its western face, but unfortunately the low cloud obscured most of the crags. Fortunately the cloud was localised and as always the views in Assynt were amazing.

The Route

8:53 and a magical start

Views of a distant Conival

Views of Suilven from the path

Leaving the path to make our way around to the western face of Creag nan Calman

Lots of boggy rough pathless terrain

Mesmerised by Stac Pollaidh

The rough walk around to the western side of Cul Mor was worth it for on of the best views of Stac Polldaih. However the cloud was so low that it was not worth continuing around to the crags as we would not be able to see or identify the any climbs. So we retraced our steps to head back for Cul Mor summit.

A steep climb up to the col but then the angle eased on the route to the summit.

Cul Mor

The side of Cul Mor scattered with Sandstone boulders and Tors

More sanstone tors

13:00 and a very windy summit

It was too windy to stop for a summit view and I seem to have lost the summit photos. We made our way down the loose steep eastern face, and manged to get some good views of pinnacle ridge, but these photos also seem to have gone astray.

Loose stones on the eastern face

Once passed the Lochan we managed to find a sheltered spot for a brew

We made our way back via. Meallain Diomhain where a good path led back to the road.

Following the path back in the gloaming.

A great hill with some magical views and amazing weather for November although it was disappointing not to meet our objectives with viewing the crags