Ben Vorlich and Stuc a'croin

[thebaldfalcon]

route up Stuc

half way up

Vorlich in distance

Did this pair with my son Nicky November 2012.
Nice clear day. no point adding anything about route, good path to follow all the way up to Vorlich summit.

Quite an easy summit to reach and would be a fine first munro to do.
Nice views to The Lawers range and Ben more hills.

Vorlich in distance

descend down to Bealach and you should find a nice sheltered spot behind one of the many large boulders for lunch

Stuc and bealach from Vorlich summit

Followed path up to Stuc and stopped about 50m from summit to try and figure a route up, I walked to the left
for about 50m over a large boulder field. Here I saw an easy way up, theres actually a path. It is still steep and
a bit slippy when wet so take care, I wouldn't attempt this peak in the snow.

view east

summit of Stuc witth Vorlich in background

For descent follow path down to the left and round the peak to a a small cairn, turn right here down a steep
grassy slope and follow the very boggy path round Vorlich and back to main path, a long muddy slog.
Try to keep a couple of meter above the path if you can, its easier .
A good day out, enjoy

[Rudolph]

Thanks for that report. You make it sound a lot simpler and easier than I remember but it's nice to see the pictures

Try to keep a couple of meter above the path if you can, its easier.

The eternal 'suffer on the path or erode the untouched bit' debate. I torture myself with this one.

[neilmci]

I did this route in the deepest clag and finding a route up the stuc was not very easy at all. The path is good till the boulder filed and then it seemed to disappear into the various options up the scramble bit. Once the clag had lifted a bit on the decent where i was following the deep gorge described above would have been much easier and probably more sensible given that i was on my own.
I would need to go back and look at the "frontal" approach on a clear day to actually gauge how difficult this route actually is. I have a feeling that my direct route may have made a meal of it!