Packed up and left Glen Nevis pretty early after 2 great days of walking there ... I'd considered doing 2 remaining eastern Mamores from the Kinlochleven side, but as I was needing to head home, I decided to leave those for another time and do Aonach Mor and Aonach Beag instead, as I'd be passing them as I set off north. This meant doing them by the Gondola route, but I had no desire to miss out on the exercise of walking up and also no desire to pay for the Nevis Range car park at the gondola, so decided to make a much longer walk for myself by doing it from the North Face car park at Torlundy. Took 2 hours in total along good forestry tracks to get to Nevis Range and onwards up the mix of paths alongside the mountain bike runs, or heading up rough ground, to get to the upper gondola station where the WH route starts from.





Wonderfully impressive sight down into Coire Choille-rais and along the corniced edge of Aonach Mor when the steep slog up the slope finally got to the top of the ridge. From there, it was a lovely easy walk (in these clear conditions) to Aonach Mor's summit and then down to the bealach between the 2 hills.








Heading up Aonach Beag was easier than it looked from a distance, with a path zig zagging up the rocks. The summit area was still covered in snow, and with the small summit cairn being on the edge, it was difficult to accurately tell where the exact summit was and where the cornice started. There were just a handful of other footprints from the last couple of days, all tentatively stopping around the same place I ventured to before retreating. It looked like the high point, at least to a couple of metres.






Returned the same way, with the long descent from Aonach Mor to the Nevis Range car park and bottom gondola station being considerably faster and easier than the steep slog up (1.5hrs to get from the upper gondola station back to the North face car park). So at my pace, the route I took added 3.5hrs of walking on to the WH route description for these 2 munros from the upper gondola station.