Glen Shiel on eBothy Blog

The Raven's Peak

Sat, 12 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000

The day promised a wet start, with early autumn showers heading in from the west coast and low cloud on the tops. However, with a clear afternoon in prospect I decided to head up a hill I’ve long admired on the way through Glen Shiel. Biod an Fhitich.

Chasing the sun

Sat, 02 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000

There had been high pressure over the UK for a few days and I’d been enjoying some great cycling in 17C, t-shirt and summer gear when the weather finally broke on the Saturday a couple of weeks ago. It was that kind of feeling though. The cloud was very low, 200m in places. The grey ceiling wasn’t producing any rain and it was lighter than it should be with that amount of cloud. It all screamed “inversion” and coupled with reports from a friend of an inversion in the Cuillin the day before and a forecast of cloud tops being around 1050m I headed out, making for the biggest hills in the area. The north Glen Shiel ridge.

a good call

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Today was forecast to be the better of the weekend days, so I left the house at 8am and was walking up beside the burn from the Eas nan Arm bridge near the 1715 battleground at the top of Glen Shiel by about 9. I sat in the car for a bit, listening to the radio, while heavy rain showers passed over, then headed up beside the trees on waterlogged and boggy ground. At the top of the trees, there’s a hole in the fence that lets you reach the main forest exit onto the open hillside and it was here that I realised I’d left the camera in the car! Not that there was much to see, with constant blizzards sweeping in from the west and reducing viz to about 30m.

ticky mhic bharraich

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

With the weather continuing scorching, hot and very very sunny, Graeme was in the vicinity again, this time Corbetteering with Bob and Sandra, so I tagged along on a bimble up Sgurr Mhic Bharraich at the head of Glen Shiel yesterday. The morning was very claggy with thick cloud down to sea level but as the morning wore on, it lifted and broke up to reveal yet another scorching day.