246, 247. Stob Coire Sgriodain (174), Chno Dearg (86, P600 53). 20/09/2022

Compared to the crowds of the previous day, this walk felt like proper Scottish wilderness. Although there were a couple of extra cars in the car park upon our return, we didn't meet a soul whilst on the hills. We were told afterwards that this is the area that the Hermit of Treig chose to live after searching for the most remote place in Scotland.

After a couple of kilometers of track and path, we were making up our own way to the top of Stob Coire Sgriodain, guided by the apocryphal "obvious grassy ramp" that our book described. We narrowed it down to three potential ramps and chose the middle one. This turned out to be fine, but it wasn't obviously correct. As we climbed, the cloud began to lift and from the upper slopes we had sunshine until well into our descent.

The walk around to Chno Dearg was gentle, as was the descent along squishy grass slopes. I imagine this could be quite wet at times though. Overall, this was a fairly easy walk for two munros and the 15km and 1050m ascent took us exactly 5h.

Approaching the first munro in the sun!

Looking north on the summit ridge of Stob Coire Sgriodain

Loch Treig from Stob Coire Sgriodain

Chno Dearg from Stob Coire Sgriodain

The summit of Stob Coire Sgriodain