Scottish Highlands, September 2004

Dusk at Lochinver, with the Quinags behind

Torridon

• The Horns of Alligin, Beinn Alligin, excellent scrambling on towers of wind-eroded gritstone
• A brief break in the clouds reveals Slioch, across Loch Maree; she wasn't in the mood to be ascended this year

Assynt

• Am Buchaille (The Herdsman), one of several sea stacks at the remote Sandwood Bay, near Cape Wrath
• Storm & spume at Clachtoll Bay
• Dusk over the mountains: the distinctive profiles of Cul Mor, Cul Beag & Stac Pollaidh, from the Inverkirkaig road...
  • ...And five minutes later, the light had completely changed
• The many faces of Suilven...
  • Castell Liath dominates Lochinver and neighbouring Canisp (both taken from our chalet window)
  • In profile, from the plateau between Cul Beag & Stac Pollaidh
• The spiky profile of Stac Pollaidh, another excellent easy scramble
• Cul Mor, one of the first mountains I ever climbed
• Its little brother, Cul Beag, proved a much trickier ascent [the picture's from the descent. On the ascent we foolishly went straight up the subsidiary peak, in the background: the crags are bigger than they look!]
• And I don't have any pictures of Ben Hope, my first Munro*, and among my lifetime wettest & coldest days out

Tavia
9 November 2004

*Munros are Scottish mountains at least 914.4 m (formerly 3000 ft) in height & with sufficient separation from adjacent peaks, based on tables compiled by Sir HT Munro in 1891 and now maintained by the Scottish Mountaineering Club. At the last revision (1997) there were 284 Munros

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