TR - Corbett - Glamaig, Skye

Lindsay said:

Glamaig

16 June 2007

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Quoted message said:

The start of the walk was the A87 Broadford to Portree Road
immediately east of the River Sligachan where there was limited
parking. Alternative parking was available at the nearby Sligachan
Hotel. We set off across some rough and boggy ground, which
fortunately wasn't too wet due to the recent dry spell experienced on
Skye.

Once at the foot of Glamaig it was a steady slog up grass and scree.
There was no relenting in this climb until the summit cairn was
reached. ......... There was a cold wind at the summit so we didn't
linger and returned to the car by the ascent route down sections of
scree.

I was up Glamaig in May. I went the other way up from Sligachan; via the
stream to the col to the south of summit, then pick line through steep and
scree. Our original plan had been to return to this col and pick off the
next two to the south. But a combination of cloud beginning its roll in at
2000ft, plus looking at quite how steep and eroded the scree looked on the
re-assent from the col caused a change of plan.

Our descent was to the east, heading towards the golf course beyond the A87.
By being on the edge of the mountains, the cloud held back from us. This, I
think, is a more pleasant descent than back over the scree and steep ground.
Major downside of our route is the walk along the A87 back to the car. At a
few places one can easily loop off the road along its earlier routes, but
most of the time is with the traffic. Some careful timing would allow use of
the bus along the main road.

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