Bruach Na Frithe on eBothy Blog

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Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

As the planet smoothly rotated into the early morning and the glowing orb once more appeared behind the Knoydart skyline you could almost here the thrum of the gears and the promise of another scorcher had me leaping out of bed, cramming sardines in olive oil into rolls, filling the flask and jumping in the car and heading for the Cuillin! Skye was forecast to be one of the hottest parts of the country yesterday at a mind baking 20deg and with a cool breeze from the south east it was perfect walking weather. So I parked just past the “Slig” at the road to Allt Dearg House and clacked my way along the rough road towards that most jaggy of skylines.

the round of bruach na frithe

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

With a Scandinavian high in charge of the weather and a sky full of stars the night before, Dawn fancied a day on the hill and so did I, to blow away the festive cobwebs. With no snow and hard night frosts we thought we’d go up Fionn Choire and see how far we’d get on Bruach na Frithe as Dawn doesn’t have crampons for her bendy boots and her plastics are ancient and uncomfortable. Being bouldery high in the coire, I thought we’d get quite far as there was no snow to speak of, so we left the house around 8:30 and were walking by 9am, heading up the very icy path to the Bealach a’Mhaim.