Guess what, another wet day. We sat in the van for a little while, looking at Loch na Gainmhich with the streams flowing into it looking whiter and clearer than on a dry day. Looking at the windscreen wipers clearing away the water from the windscreen.
I was quite happy just looking at some geological literature I’d got at the bookshop at Inverkirkaig, but eventually B persuaded me that we should get out and walk. Sigh. We walked up a path and then up the steep slope on the western flank of Glas Bheinn. The cloud base was quite low, so we were in mist by the time we got to the shoulder of the north-west ridge we had gone up. We used the opportunity to practice a bit of navigation, as the top of Glas Bheinn is quite wide. We walked across quite a lot of pinkish quartzite, and there was a lot of pipe rock at the summit. We saw ptarmigan and grouse.
Map showing walk route
View Glas Bheinn in mist – Sept 2011 in a larger map
The next day, as the weather forecast seemed marginally better to the south than in the Far North, we travelled south to Glen Coe, stopping in the Great Glen along the way.
