The Lost Valley, Stob Coire Sgreamhach, & Bidean nam Bian, Glen Coe – September | 隠された谷…グレン・コー

Rain and high winds were forecast. We had planned to go up Coire nam Beithach to the west of Aonach Dubh up to the peak of Bidean nam Bian, but as soon as we got out of the vehicle, we realised it was a very windy day, and the route we were looking at was getting quite a buffeting. So, change of plan – we decided to go further into the glen, and walk up to the Lost Valley up Coire Gabhail, and see how things went.

予報は雨と強い風。ウーナハ・ドゥーの東側にあるコリ・ナム・ベイアハのハンギング・ヴァリー（懸谷）を通ってビーチャン・ナム・ビアンの頂上まで登るつもりだったが、バンから降りたとたんにどれだけ風が強いのか分かり、その風が決めたルートに直接あたっていたので、ルートを変えることにした。グレン・コーのもう少し東よりのコリ・ガヴェイルを登ってロスト・ヴァリー（隠された谷）までまず行ってみることにした。

As it happened, it was definitely a lot more sheltered on the northern side of the Three Sisters. Once we got to the Lost Valley, it seemed a shame not to continue, so we did, getting to the bealach (col) at the top of Coire Gabhail, then turning left (east) to go up to Stob Coire Sgreamhach, returning to the bealach, then continuing north-west as far as Bidean nam Bian. We were mindful of the high winds along the ridge and the weather (we put on gloves and balaclavas for this, and it did hail a couple of times), which was obscuring the view further on to Stob Coire nam Beith, so we headed back down the same way we’d gone up.

幸いに、グレン・コーの三姉妹の北側はそれほど風にあたっていなかった。ロスト・ヴァリーに着き、もう少し先に行ってみないともったいないと思い、そのままコリ・ガヴェイルを登ってコル(鞍部／ザッテル)まで行き、続いて左(東)のストプ・コリ・スクリヴァハまで登った。それからコルまで戻り、風が強いのでバラクラバをかぶり、反対方向のビーチャン・ナム・ビアンまで歩いた。少しあられも降り、霧が深くなって景色も見えないので、その先のストプ・コリ・ナム・ベイには行かずに、同じルートを辿って下山した。

We’d had to cross the burn on the way up, and I’d just about managed not to get my feet in the water. On the way back down, it proved a bit more difficult – the water level had got noticeably higher in the short time that had passed, I suppose with the earlier rainfall having worked its way into the watercourses.

上り道で小川を渡ったとき、石を使って殆ど殆ど足を濡らさずにすんだのだけど、下りの際は、数時間の間に水流が増していたので、滑らないために水に踏み入った。以前に降った雨が流れ出たのだろう。

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Looking up at Bidean nam Bian at the top of Coire nan Lochan that we came down two days earlier

Looking up towards Coire Gabhail to the left of Gearr Aonach, the middle of the Three Sisters

Bidean nam Bian

Looking into the flat-bottomed, and quite long and wide, Lost Valley

The Lost Valley

Path up to the bealach. There was a good path for most of the way up

One of the many streams that flow into Allt Coire Gabhail

The Lost Valley from above, looking north

Moss

Mist in the Lost Valley

The Lost Valley and Sron a’ Choire Odhair-bhig beyond

The Lost Valley

Sron a’ Choire Odhair-bhig

A temporary clearing of the cloud – looking west from the ridge

Hill seen through the cloud

Loch Etive in the distance, looking south-south-west

Temporary clearing of cloud

Cloud lifting

Cloud lifting

Coire Gabhail

Stob Coire nan Lochan, looking north

Stob Coire nan Lochan, with Gearr Aonach (the middle Sister) lower right

Loch Etive shining through the low cloud

Coire Gabhail

Coire Gabhail

Making a drypoint

Stob Coire Sgreamhach

Sunshine and blue sky breaking through

Coire Gabhail

The clear water of Allt Coire Gabhail

Going back down towards the Lost Valley, looking north-east

Looking back up to the ridge

The Lost Valley floor

The steep walls of the corrie

Looking north at the big triangular rock at the mouth of the Lost Valley, and across at Sron a’ Choire Odhair-bhig

Like a landscaped garden

Like a landscaped garden

Sunlit Am Bodach, which we went up to reach the Aonach Eagach ridge five days previously

Allt Coire Gabhail

Allt Coire Gabhail

Allt Coire Gabhail

Allt Coire Gabhail

Allt Coire Gabhail

Allt Coire Gabhail

Red rock on the path out to the road

Red rock on the path out to the road

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