This was one of the most peaceful, awe inspiring and exhilarating walks I have ever done.
The walk in from Incheril is long – about 4 km – and it’s along the River Kinlochewe, then beside Loch Maree, through native trees. It’s beautiful.
When you get to the foot of Gleann Bianasdail and turn to go up the river, the climbing starts. Each waterfall more impressive than the previous.
All the way up I was stalked by Red deer and wild mountain goats. Every time I looked around me, they seemed to be looking down on me!
After a few hundred metres you branch off to head through the large open corrie of Coire na Sleaghaich and pass two lochans. Then the walk becomes incredibly steep. The effort is well worth it. The views are stunning.
There is a Trig top and the North top. There’s only a metre of a difference between them.
I really felt with the steepness of the incline from the two lochans that it would be dangerous to go back down that way, so I continued along the ridge to outlier Sgurr an Tuill Bhain which Cameron McNeish describes as “increasingly narrowing and exhilarating”. Talk about being between the devil and the deep blue sea!
The only other walker I saw all day was when I got back to the car park. We had a brief chat and he said he’d come down the same way he went up as the outlier ridge “looked a bit narrow with nothing to hold on to”
For exhilarating read SCARY! Wow I did it! For those of you who know my (previous) predilection with vertigo I’m really feeling very smug.
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