Saturday 2nd August, Munro Bagging in Scotland

After a long drive North to Craig we were heading for the two remote munro’s of Bidein a Choire Sheasgaich and Lurg Mhor. We had decided to use bikes for this trip and set off on a long gradual climb up the forest track to the junction with the track to Bealach Bhearnais. Rain and low cloud were with us from the start of the day and made navigation over the Corbett, Beinn Tharsin, more interesting. We eventually arrived at the foot of Bidein a Choire Sheasgaich and followed the wall up to the foot of small crag where a waterfall was now running down the obvious line of the path.








In poor visibility we located the ascent gully and worked our way up to the ridge leading to the summit. After a quick break we continued along the ridge to Lurg Mhor before retracing our steps back over the route we had originally taken. Finally we dropped out of the cloud when we descended to Bealach Bhearnais. The walk down the stalkers path was enjoyable as the rain seemed to be easing and glimpses of the other mountains appeared through the clouds.


The bike ride back to Craig is mostly downhill on good tracks and is very fast, well worth the extra effort getting the bike up the hill.

My Munro count is now 282

We spent the evening in the bunkhouse at Aultguish, which now has new owners. A big improvement on the last time we stayed there in March ’08. The drying room was working hard all night to provide some dry kit for Sunday.