"Start 1025h + Finish 1700h = 6h35, 21km, ascent 1240m Summits today: BEINN ACHALADAIR SOUTH TOP - Munro Top BEINN ACHALADAIR - Munro MEALL BUIDHE - Munro Top BEINN A’ CHREACHAIN - Munro BEINN A’CHREACHAIN NORTH TOP - Subsimm, Deleted Munro Top Pretty standard anti-clockwise round in windy, crystal clear weather with unlimited visibility. Old guidebooks have this walk starting at Achaladair farm but there’s now a newIsh walkers car park close to the A82, adding bonus distance to the day. Excellent views of the Blackmount and Rannoch Moor across to Ben Nevis, Mamores + Grey Corries. I made quick progress on top thanks to easy short grass (ideal for fell runners; a few went past today) then took the direct pathless descent variation to the railway bridge which worked well, saving time and distance compared to the way most folks go. Three stiles get you over deer fences then below the somewhat decrepit railway bridge I picked up a pleasant old path through the woods which is becoming faint and overgrown with brush and bracken due lack of use nowadays. " — davidb • Sep 19, 2020

"Not the usual way up remote Sgurr Mor, a big day however you do it. A good route if you enjoy the cycling, plus you get spared driving the Strathan road switchback and take full advantage of excellent old stalkers paths and bridges over all rivers. Start 1020h + Finish 2005h = Total 9h45, 47.5km, ascent 1675m Cycle in 2h15, 15.7km, ascent 355m, descent 185m Walk 16.1km, 5h40, ascent 1135m Cycle back 1h35, 15.7km, ascent 185m, descent 355m Summits today: SGURR BEAG - Hump, Simm, Submarilyn, Corbett Top, Yeaman SGURR MOR - Munro SGURR AN FHUARAIN - Corbett Parked at Poulary NH133014 2km west of Tomdoun (just room for a car or two where the forestry road begins). Cycled up isolated Glen Kingie switching to foot at path junction NN008963. ***DO NOT miss the left turn off downhill to Lochan ruin where you leave great forestry trails behind and take a deteriorating track instead*** Otherwise bimbling straight on in someone else’s cycle tracks eventually dumps you pathless in a forest swamp. Oops! To regain track I just managed to ride/slide a boggy forest fire break downhill under gravity over very rough steep extreme ground. Plumped to walk clockwise; no rush to get to..." — davidb • Aug 28, 2020

"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

"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 tricky 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

"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 tricky 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