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1 summit • 31.0 km • 1,824 m gain • 11 hr 16 min
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"Start 0720h + Finish 1835h = 11h15, 31.1km, ascent 2170m
Fairly standard 5 Munro guidebook antI-clockwise round of the Abhain Gleann nam Fiadh taking care to visit all 9 Munro Tops, some of which get bypassed on the main MunroIst tramp. It’s a classic long day spent wandering high ridges so I ensured an early start and good forecast. Some fantastic views today; mountains all around, east and west coasts both visible (!) the Skye Bridge and even as far as the mountains on Harris, Outer Hebrides.
The Glen Affric walkers car park (free unlike the others) got moved 250m back down the Glen as part of Hydro works (all complete) so you can add 500m to previous guide distances. The upgraded hydro track is now suitable for cycles though, which might open up some new itineraries in this beautiful area?
Shortened the normal route slightly by tackling Toll Creagach direct after sizing up the initial crag band on approach. Once above this trucky rough lower section it’s pathless but without difficulty, getting easier the higher you go.
Descended LapaIch’s worthwhile long ridge to save revisitIng lest it regain Munro status. I wouldn’t want to ascend this way; you’d ‘enjoy’ a boggy ..." — davidb • Aug 24, 2020
"With Jonathan Bellarby. Up the footpath in Gleann Fiadh. and the path beside Allt Toll Easa. Where the path crosses to the east bank we struck up the mountainside towards the east ridge. We climbed a steep snow field to the south of the ridge to reach the summit of Tom a’ Chòinich. Continued to Carn Eighe and some of the tops of Mam Sodhail. Much snow on N facing slopes with many cornices." — peter43 • Apr 18, 1982