CLASSIC TORRIDON
Grade 3/4 , 5 days / 6 nights

Torridon’s reputation is wholly justified. A landscape of towering buttresses & 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 Sunday 13th 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: Saturday 19th July after breakfast.

Price: £538 (5 days/6 nights)
fully inclusive of: all guiding or instruction, accommodation (see below), full board, transport and transfers to Aviemore Station or Inverness airport*if required.

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 Sunday 15th July 2007 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 Sunday 15th July 2007 and we will transfer you over to Torridon. Return Drop-off time at Inverness Airport on Saturday 15th July is 11.30 am.
3, Arrive Torridon under your own steam on Sunday 15th July 2007 preferably in time to join the group for dinner at 7.30 pm.

There is also the option of adding extra night's accommodation at Fraoch Lodge if it should help with your travel plans - £27, D, B&B.

Mick Wansborough (Classic Torridon)

"Thank you very much for another splendid Mountain Innovations Holiday. There were excellent excursions, and we very much appreciated all the trouble you took over Matthew's diet. On the train home, I sat wondering why your holidays are so good. A main factor, of course, is that you offer a complete package - transport to and from airport or railway station, transport on the walking days, accommodation, all meals and packed lunches (with the ability to provide very creatively for special diets), interesting walks showing the best features of the country (and not just guided walks, but lots of information on the geology, landscape, weather, flora and fauna etc). This is very commendable but not sufficient to explain everything. I think that the key factors are that you both work very hard and you are both very good at what you do!"

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* Mountain Innovations Ltd will pick up from Inverness airport at approx. 5pm, unless otherwise arranged.

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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