Buachaille Etive Mor and Mountain Navigation
Buachaille Etive Mor (The big herdsman of the glen) is an iconic scottish hill / ridge line in glencoe.
It makes a great point to point hill run as I found out yesterday with Robert Munro.
As you can see by the route it is a point to point run starting at Lagangarbh and finishing at Dalness. We achievied this using 2 cars but you could quite as easily drive to dalness with one car then hitch a lift to the start.
In terms of the details of the route, there is a fairly good path the whole way to keep you right.
However, the mist was down yesterday and a word of warning, a map and compass is required for this route and it was very handy yesterday in the thick mist.
You can see by the route that we made a couple of errors on the tops. After we arrived at the summits we did not check our direction the first few times and this caused us to run down the wrong ridge / corrie.
- Always check your compass when you are about to descend.
The run took 3 hours 5 minutes; a good jaunt for a Sunday.
We stopped at the Real Food Cafe on the way back for some tasty food. I had a top class Lamb Burger.
I was thinking about getting a soup but then saw that it was £3.25!! so I went hungry and ate smart price bourbons in the car instead.