winter guiding in the cuillin garbh bheinn north ridge

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I had an old friend staying for the Easter weekend, up for a Corbett bagging session and with the forecast predicting heavy snow and gale force winds it was an ideal opportunity to get some Winter ML logbook experience. We intended to go up Garbh Bheinn, starting at the head of Loch Ainort at the wonderfully named Eas nam Bruadaran (waterfall of dreams), which flows out of Coire nam Bruadaran (corrie of dreams). I don’t know how this area got its name but it’s a a rather large bog and the walk up the corrie to Marsco can be hard going in wet weather. However, our route was up Druim Eadar da Choire (the ridge between two corries) and up the north ridge of Garbh Bheinn (rough hill). I’d been up this way in summer and knew that the 489m top was a beautiful spot to linger and soak up the views of the Cuillin ridge and it was a nice grassy Alp, in contrast to the upper part of the north ridge which was bare rock and scree.

Garbh Bheinn on eBothy Blog

winter guiding in the cuillin garbh bheinn north ridge