Munro Diary: 263, 264. Creag Mhor (84), Beinn Heasgarnich (62). 11/04/2024

As is often the case, hill choices and plans of attack often hinge on weather. There was to be plenty of weather on our long weekend, but the only day we might avoid much rain was the first day. Despite normally preferring a "warm-up day" to start with, we chose something a little longer to make the most of it. We still braced ourselves for upland gales and 10% chance of cloud-free tops.

The walk began with a yomp along the valley to ease us in before making our way up the shoulder of Creag Mhor. There was a decent path most of the way, although we lost it briefly when locating a gate in the deer fence. Approaching the summit we were going into the wind, but it wasn't a problem and the top was just about cloud free when we got there.

It took us a few minutes to locate the way down to the west, but it was obvious when we did and we then bent round north then east to descend into the bealach, before attacking the nose of Beinn Heasgarnich's first top. There was quite a bit of reascent and we only found the path higher up, but the weather was too our backs which meant we were at the top without too much fuss. The walk along the ridge was excellent, being blown along by the weather. Again the top was arguably cloud-free (yes that makes 100% cloud-free munros MWIS!).

There were a few descent options and we chose the route to the east, which Cicerone described as "interesting". It turned out to be "sapping" and quite long, but at least soft on the joints. Then it was an easy walk back down to the road. In all (with 2km more on the road than Cicerone), we took 8h15 for 27km and 1300m ascent.