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Marsco route description.
Parked at Sligachan bridge on Feb 12 2008. Set off at 7:30 am down Glen Sligachan, the ground frost made walking easy as any normally boggy bits were frozen. The 1st photo shows the distinct profile of Marsco not long after leaving the car. Following the description on walkhighlands.co.uk, i reached the Mam a’ Phobuill at 8:30, crossed the river then up the broad Northeast ridge to join the summit ridge.
Most of cuillin laid out before me, a short walk Northwest brought me to the summit at just past 10:00. I usually like to wander round and explore a mountain summit, on Marsco this is not really possible as the summit point is on a sharpish ridge. There is a shallow cairn shelter a few yards Northwest of the summit, a good bivvy site for summer. I sat for 1 hr soaking up the views, then headed down the steep Southeast ridge. As it was early i contoured round, then up to Ruadh Stac. Blaven is really in your face here, unfortunately the sun was behind Blaven and the pictures i took were all flat. On the other hand Sgurr nan Gillean looked superb as the pinnacle ridge stood out, 2rd photo (too far away to get a crisp shot).
After a short rest headed Northwest down a rough scree slope to join the path and a 6km walk back to the car. Passing under Marsco its seems there are no ways up or down from this side, it looks all cliffs and crags.