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I have had this walk in my mind for a long time, so I was up & away from Glasgow at 6am with my friend Harry & his 10 month old golden retriever, Millie, for her first taste of high mountains, with a great deal of excitement. Weather forecast looking good, clear tops, little rain & not as hot as Friday!
Arrived at the tourist information car park, following a good run with every Munro on the way up wearing a cloud hat.
You get a good view of Sgorr Bhan from the car park & what a view it is rugged steep peak.
- Sgorr Bhan from the car park
We had opted for the WH route going up the very steep grass slopes of Beinn Bhan which is the north north east ridge to Sgorr Bhan rather than the scramble of the north east ridge as we were not sure if Millie was ready for scrambling.
- Ascent to Beinn Bhan
As you climb up the slops of Beinn Bhan, which is a bugger, the views open up & once you get onto its top at about 450 meters the views down Loch Leven & up Loch Linnhe, down Glencoe & the Bidean massif, to name but a few are stunning.
- Loch Leven & the Pape
- Up the steep grass slopes above Balachullish
You need to spend a while taking in the views to let your legs recover from all the hard work to only be at 450 meters.
- Looking down Glencoe
From this point the path to the summit of Sgorr Bhan is straight forward & once the summit is reached the ridge to Sgorr Dhearg looks as fantastic as all the pictures you have seen.
- Path to Sgorr Bhan
- Deeper than she thought!
- North East ridge of Sgorr Bhan
- Loch Leven, The Pape & Glencoe
- Summit Sgorr Bhan with Sgorr Dhearg behind
- The ridge to Sgorr Dhearg
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It’s a fairly easy pull to said first Munro & then again the view to Sgorr Dhonuill is equally impressive as is the view back along the ridge.
- Looking back
- Sgorr Dhonuill from Sgorr Dhearg
Down to the bealach is a quick jaunt & then the ascent is a bit harder work than the last, with the need to put hand to rock on a couple of occasions & the odd rather long drop beside you.
- Last push to Dhonuill
- Millie in a boulder field
From here the views out to sea are great & worth spending time taking in before the decent to the bealach & the long work out.
- Two Sgorrs & a Pape
- Three Sgorrs, one Pape & I
- Looking out west
- Decent of Dhonuill
From the bealach as the notes say stick close to the right side of the fence posts all the way to the trees. The new path must be further on in construction than when the notes were written as whilst we did see the old path descending where the new path has a slight rise the new path is the more obvious of the too.
- Fence posts through the crags
We arrived back at the car 9 hours after our start feeling weary, but elated. This in my opinion is a contender for one of the greatest walks in Scotland, but like others only if you get the right weather.
Whilst we were taking of boots etc Millie had a snooze.
- say no more!