Midges notwithstanding our five days on Skye were a highlight of our month in the UK. The Glenbrittle campground is by the beach at the foot of the Cuillin ridge and, best of all, has a shop and cafe with croissants and genuinely good coffee. On our first full day we went up to Lochan (lake) Coire Lagan and then the more intrepid among us continued up for a scramble on An Stac. Jos and Pip did this a couple days later unroped as part of a longer traverse of the ridge, but today we all tied in (Andrew did so the old-fashioned way as we didn't have a harness for him). A straightforward but quite exposed scramble; it felt like a good intro to the Cuillins. At the top Jos and Pip had to take the opportunity to get up the 'Inaccessible Pinnacle', and then Oliver climbed / got hauled up the rappel route on the opposite side. A long descent down the west side of Sguur Dearg before Oliver, with Pip in tow, took off on a full-out run down the trail and then cross country in order to make it back to Glenbrittle for ice cream before the shop closed (we made it with about 9min to spare).
Scramblers: Oliver, Jos, Pip, Andrew, Guy.
Photos | Strava | Video of Danny Macaskill getting up the IP with his bike.
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