Saturday 19th July, Munro Bagging in Scotland

We went to Glen Strathfarrar today, a beautiful glen full of old Scots pines, north of Inverness with restricted access. Our goal was the four munro’s on the north side of the glen. Sgurr Fhuar-thuill, Sgurr a Choire Ghlais, Carn nan Gobhar, Sgurr na Ruaidhe. Due to the strong winds and driving rain we decided to walk to ridge from west to east to make our journey slightly easier in the poor conditions.

My Munro total after today is now 277

As we got back to the cars the rain stopped and clouds lifted and we got of first views of the ridge. Our plan for the rest of the day was to drive up to the end of Glen Affric and use our mountain bikes to get into remote Alltbeithe Youth Hostel, approx 14km along rough tracks.


This proved to be exciting with flooded track and stream crossings to overcome, after what seemed a long bike ride we finally arrived at the hostel. In early evening the stags came down off the hills and we were treated to some very close views of the deer from the comfort of the hostel kitchen.