Steep Streap

[mountain thyme]

I drove to Arisaig on the Friday night and joined Johnny and Kim camping at Kinloid Farm. Great wee campsite which costs £6 a night and has loos and showers. What a beautiful part of the country and after 2 wines decided Streap was the walk for the following day

Parked in the car parking area off the A830 where we met Monty who was tackling the 2 munros from Glenfinnan and taking the mickey asked us what a Corbett was. You will be getting to know these wee – er hills soon once you compleat Mr Lamont

Left the carpark and headed along the private track under the glenfinnan viaduct on our bikes. Great track all the way to Corryhully bothy, where we left our bikes.

Crossed the River Finnan and headed straight up the steep slopes of Streap. We kept west of the stream and headed for the top of the slopes.

We skirted under the initial ridge to gain the col between Beinn an Tuim and Stob Coire nan Cearc. Quite a slog in the warm weather where a few refreshment stops were required.

Continued north until the beautiful ridge of Streap came into view. Stopped for lunch just before the ridge narrowed and decided to leave our bags here to pick them up on our return.

We headed along the ridge, where a very easy scramble ( if you call it a scramble ) was encountered on 2 occasions, but seriously nothing to worry about.

Reached the summit and admired the fabulous views all around. Quick summit pic and headed back to pick up our bags.

Headed south west from the edge of the ridge and down the steep slopes to pick up the track back to Corryhully. The track splits on 2 occasions where we kept to the higher tracks although both paths seem to lead to the bothy.

Back on the bikes and back to the cars
5 hours 45 mins

on the track to corryhully

corryhully bothy

johnny the slow worm

glennfinnan lodge

view to corryhully

heading to streap

hoping for a handsome prince

the ridge

summit pic

[monty]

Nice report Theresa. Excellent set of photos. Good to meet up with you corbetteers Your starting to get a good count of Corbetts now. I am sure i will eventually catch you up

[mountain thyme]

Nice report Theresa. Excellent set of photos. Good to meet up with you corbetteers Your starting to get a good count of Corbetts now. I am sure i will eventually catch you up

cheers monty.. you have no chance on catching me .. you tried that with the munros and i flew passed you

[rockhopper]

Saturday was certainly a good day to be out - had thought about going up this way but switched to Kintail - looks great in your photos. Some varied wildlife as well including your slow worm picture - cheers

[mgmt!]

nice wee report there mt, giving a good account of the walk, so i take it the massive python you encountered was actually a teenie weenie slow worm ? would like to see the size of your wine glasses

[Johnny Corbett]

A great day MT. As for that "Python" that you both saw, how did i miss something so big?

[gammy leg walker]

Nice one MT,and some bonny pics to boot.

PS...............still sorry I missed your last munro party,maybe come to your last corbett.

[malky_c]

Nice one . Still not done Streap - looking forward to it quite a lot though.

[Alan S]

Nice one MT good to see your corbett count coming along

[mountain thyme]

Saturday was certainly a good day to be out - had thought about going up this way but switched to Kintail - looks great in your photos. Some varied wildlife as well including your slow worm picture - cheers

it was great day indeed.... thanks for the advice/ info on the big snake... thought id seen a snake at last !

nice wee report there mt, giving a good account of the walk, so i take it the massive python you encountered was actually a teenie weenie slow worm ? would like to see the size of your wine glasses

never got a pic of the python it was that fast and vicious

A great day MT. As for that "Python" that you both saw, how did i miss something so big?

because your always away at the back

Nice one MT,and some bonny pics to boot.

PS...............still sorry I missed your last munro party,maybe come to your last corbett.

no worries gammy.. maybe next year haha

Nice one . Still not done Streap - looking forward to it quite a lot though.

cheers malky.. its a lovely wee one.. but steep

Nice one MT good to see your corbett count coming along

cheers Alan... getting addicted