Beinn Trilleachan

After the last few outings it was nice to go out for a walk

We parked up at the far West end of Glen Etive and set off up the steep slopes to teh first top of this brilliant Corbett. The famous Etive slabs were visible on the sheer South easterly face of the hill and as a climbers playground I have a feeling I'll be back in the summer. The weather threw everything she had at us on the ascent with biting wind, hail, and wet snow but we battled on over two minor summits before the summit proper at 839meters (76 meters below Munro status). Since the start position is sea level many Munros actually require less climbing than this and it does feel like a good work out.

On teh descent the weather rewarded s with our perseverance and opened up to blue skies and stunnin views looking down the sheer drop of the slabs to the car sitting 2500ft below us. Photographs just cant depict that massive sense of open space a few meters in front of you.

The lower slops were descended in sun with jackets gloves, hats and so packed away in our sacks.

The first time I've set out to climb a Corbett and if this is anything to go by my chances of completing the Munros has just vanished. I'm not interested in slogging up a boring lump of a hill because it's over 3000ft if there are gems like this lying nearby.