A traverse of the summit ridge of
Buachaille Etive
Mor from Stob Dearg,
the first of its two Munro summits above Glencoe,
across the middle peak of Stob na Doire
and
out to the second Munro Stob na Broige above Glen
Etive
Lagangarbh
Bothy
beneath Buachaille Etive Mor |
Lagangarbh
Bothy
beneath Buachaille Etive Mor |
"Devil's
Staircase" on route of West
Highland
Way
from Glencoe to Kinlochleven The name was given by the soldiers who were part of the road building program of General Wade. The carrying of building materials up this stretch of the road was not popular! The name was perpetuated when some of the workers building the Blackwater Dam chose to travel to the nearest pub at the Kingshouse Inn after their wages had been paid - the journey to the Kingshouse Hotel proved more difficult than expected and the return journey even worse on unsteady legs - on a cold winter’s night, the devil often ”claimed his own“. |
Summit
ridge of Buachaille Etive Mor
from Stob na Broige |
Peaks
above Glen Etive
from Stob na Broige |
Peaks
above Glen Etive
from Stob na Broige |
Peaks
above Glen Etive
|
Bidean nam Bian
from Stob na Broige |
View
to the north
from Stob na Broige |
Ben Nevis
from Stob na Broige |
Descent
route from Stob na Broige
to the Lairig Gartain |
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Buachaille Etive Beag
above the Lairig Gartain |
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Descent
route from Stob na Broige
to the Lairig Gartain |
|
River
Coupall
in the Lairig Gartain |
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Waterfall on River Coe
|
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Map of
Buachaille Etive Mor
|
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Map of
West Highland Way
from Kingshouse to Kinlochleven |
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