Julie's continued assault of the 1550 'Marilyn' (relative hills separated by a 150 metre drop) summits proceeded to summit number 1396, where she was joined by me and Tom on the 510 metre monolith known as Creag Bhan.
After parking in a lay-by on the A830 road beyond Glenfinnan, we soon found the path that goes under a small railway bridge near Lochailort.
Looking back, the Corbett summits of Moidart beckoned, but our objective today was in the opposite direction.
We rose gently to a good viewpoint overlooking the iconic railway line. A horn blared but no train appeared. We continued upwards, failing to capture an image of the DMU as it passed below.
I've been wanting to walk up this path for some years, as it is a TGO Challenge route from the Lochailort starting point, notorious for failed attempts to find Prince Charlie's Cave, and the difficult shore line of Loch Beoraid. In the event our path took us to the left of the cave, becoming an easy grassy slope up the flanks of Creag Bhan.
Here's the view along Loch Beoraid. At least I established that the route so far as I went was on a good path.
Up at the summit, after my hat had blown away and been recovered from a pond, it took several attempts to negotiate the windy, rocky ramparts, but Tom did eventually gain a position from which to record me and Julie on the top.
It was windy.
We enjoyed good views to Moidart, as well as to Eigg and Rhum.
A good spot sheltered from the wind was found for lunch.
A direct descent to the path on which we had started up the hill got us all the way down with no incidents. Here's Julie on the last part of the descent.
Here's our route, just 7 km with 500 metres ascent. It took Julie and me a good 4 hours. Tom ran down a little quicker and had gone to his next appointment by the time we reached the lay-by.
Thanks go to Julie for suggesting this jolly excursion.
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