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with the bad weather forcast i called off a visit to skye at the weekend, i decided to head up to ullapool to try some solo or doubles to keep momentum and fitness up. mountain thyme phoned me and as her planned trip to an teallach was also called off she decided to join me. after a really blowy night camping it was with reluctance we got up and eventually decided to give it a go. the tops were dusted with a little overnight snow as we set of down the track towards the boathouse at loch a, bhraoin.
- leitir fhearna from path towards the boathouse
as we approached the boathouse i noticed a path to the left which i remembered skipped out the very boggy path from the boathouse to the bridge. we crossed the bridge and headed up the leitir fhearna. there is a little path which zig zaggs up through the crags.
- little nest on the leitir fhearna
once on the ridge of the druim reidh the forcast wind soon got up and we headed south towards toman coinich. as we headed along i noticed a stalkers path to the right that looked as if it would take us to the bealach with a, chaillach. we took this and sure enough the path contoured the foot of some crags and a short ascent later we were at the bealach.
- sgurr breac from druim reidh
- a, chailleach from druim reidh
once at the bealach the wind got even worse, the clag came down and we took a battering as we ascended the ridge to the summit of a, chaillach. we didnt hang about and decended back to the bealach. with the high winds the rain and clag was coming and going. we then headed up to toman coinich. there was some deep drifts of snow on the bealach between toman coinich and the final munro sgurr breac.
- sgurr breac from toman coinich
we headed over the snow, past a little cain to the summit of sgurr breac.
- summit of sgurr breac
we returned by retracing our way back to toman coinich and decending back down the druim reidh and leitir fhearne to the car. with the bad weather forcast i wasnt looking foward to the walk but i had a fantastic day, wind snow, rain and sun, with lots of wind thrown in, when the cloud lifted we had some great views and everything was so crisp. we actually completed the walk in 5 hours 40 minutes, we headed off into ullapool ellated.
- mountain thyme in the snow