
Classic Torridon
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Grade 3
Torridon’s reputation is wholly justified. A landscape of towering buttresses and a primeval feel. For many this magnificent area provides the finest mountain days anywhere. I need say little more, other than this holiday requires a good head for heights.
Arrive: at pick-up points by stipulated time (see options below) on Saturday 11th July 2008.
Day 1: The narrow ridges followed by the entertaining three Horns of the Jewel Mountain, Beinn Alligin, makes a very fine introduction to the Torridon mountains.
Day 2: Slioch - ‘the spear’ - rises fortress like to dominate the most beautiful of lochs, Loch Maree. A walk in mountain splendour and one of the Scotland’s classic peaks.
Day 3: The view of Liathach from Glen Torridon is stupendous. It’s eastern spine appears to rise sheer in a series of fortressed buttresses. We breach the defences of this huge monolith for a traverse along its sensational crest.
Day 4: Beinn Eighe’s is another of Torridon’s Giants. Its northerly flanks thrust out rocky spurs to encircle deep corries with cliff skirted headwalls, the finest of which is Coire Mhic Fhearchair & it’s 1000ft triple buttress - one of the natural wonders of Scotland.
Day 5: Beinn Damh may be just short of Munro status but it doesn’t lack interest. Its dramatic east face of towering buttresses & huge cliffs makes it an equal amongst its neighbouring giants.
Depart: Friday 17th July after breakfast.
Accommodation: We hire a well appointed holiday cottage in the vicinity of the picturesque fishing village of Torridon. Supplied with all the necessary facilities including a well equipped drying room.
Pick-up Options:
1, Arrive Fraoch Lodge by 4pm on day of arrival and we will take you the rest of the way to Torridon. You can safely leave your car in our off-road parking behind Fraoch Lodge. Tranfers available from/to Aviemore station.
2, Arrive Inverness Airport by 5pm on day of arrival and we will transfer you over to Torridon. Return Drop-off time at Inverness Airport on day of departure is 11.30 am.
3, Arrive Torridon under your own steam on day of arrival preferably in time to join the group for dinner at 8pm.
There is also the option of adding extra night's accommodation at Fraoch Lodge if it should help with your travel plans - £31, D, B&B.
Mountain Innovations Ltd will pick up from Inverness airport at approx. 5pm, if required.
Mountain Innovations advises all clients to take out suitable insurance cover. We can offer you the names of some insurance companies clients have mentioned to us, but we can in no way endorse any particular company. Please feel free to check all available options.
Final choice of route on the day is at the discretion of Mountain Innovations Ltd and may depend on prevailing weather conditions &/or the fitness of the group.
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