The early morning up along the access road from Inverlael.
The view back to the car park.
One of the streams to cross on the outward route.
Early morning rays bursting through cloud over Beinn Dearg.
An Teallach first sighting above the car park at Inverlael.
The sun shining down on the righteous.
Pass through the deer fence on the steep climb up at the start.
Looking back across the deer fence.
An Teallach again.
The Fisherfield forest Munro's next to An Teallach.
Beinn Dearg group still obscured by the low lying sun.
Eididh nan Clach Geala ahead.
Difficult to cross in spate, but not today.
An Teallach and the Fisherfield six.
Fisherfield.
Eididh nan Clach Geala.
A decent path stays close to the stream on the way up.
Seana Bhraigh is the furthest away peak, but the route is not direct from here.
Assynt on the way up to Seana Bhraigh.
Assynt again.
An Teallach from a different angle.
Around the rear slopes of Eididh nan Clach Geala.
Passing a series of lochans in another wise featureless terrain.
Ben Mor Coigach??
Looking down the length of Cadha Dearg.
Seana Bhraigh summit in the distance.
View of Fisherfield from the summit plateau.
Beinn Dearg now obscured by low cloud.
Seana Bhraigh summit shelter.
Assynt as the mist started to roll past.
Assynt again...can you pick out any of the hills??
Looking back to see Beinn Dearg again.
A subsidiary top.
Not sure if that way off would be any quicker??
Some impressive scrambling opportunities there...
Assynt...
There are at least two Munro's out there...
Jelly McBaby on the summit shelter.
Looks like the cloud may be lifting a little...
Now to return via the same outward route.
The wind was so strong my arm couldn't hold the camera still.
Beinn Dearg group, minus the rays of sunshine from earlier.
The one thing that the pictures don't tell you is how cold and windy it was up there. Forecast to be mild and gentle wind was completely wrong...fierce gusts and chill conditions accompanied me most of the way, getting worse as height was gained. I managed this trip in seven hours...which was marginally more than the car trip there and back (having to contend with thick freezing fog when I left Aberdeen at five o'clock in the morning really slowed the journey down). A very long day, not helped with a slip off a rock just below the summit that appears to have pulled something in my knee, but all worth it for some of the clear views into Assynt.
Hopefully normal blogging will be restored for the next away day...
