277, 278. Beinn Fhada (100, P600 61), A'Ghlas-bheinn (273). 25/06/2024

Having spent the best weather day climbing the long ridge in the mist, we could well have expected today to be miserable, but in the end it remained dry throughout. It was still cloudy, but even that lifted somewhat in the afternoon.

We parked at the mountain rescue hut and followed the well-made NT path round in the mountain. This climbed steadily into the cloud and with a final steep climb we were onto the ridge which was felt by the legs after the previous few days of walking. Then it was a straightforward gradual pull up to the top, where we met walkers from Glen Affric.

We descended back to the top of the steep section and then continued along the ridge to the north, looking for the grassy route through the rocks that avoids the need to lose too much height. I think we sort of found this (it was very steep at times) and we were able to make our way to a very picturesque bealach that we shared with several deer. Here there was a small path on to A'Ghlas-bheinn and we could even see where we were going as the cloud had lifted! There were many false summits as we approached the top and unfortunately the last few metres were still in the cloud, but there were no difficulties.

The descent was quite long, but soft and grassy, which was much appreciated. We headed west to avoid the steepest slopes and reached the track by a stone bridge, which took us south to join our outward path. In all, the 22km and 1500m of ascent took us 7h20.

The top of Beinn Fhada

The bealach before ascent of A'Ghlas-bheinn

An inquisitive guest

A nice grassy descent