Watching the Cold and the Beautiful; Enjoy the Glorious Views As You Walk in the Shadow of Buachaille Etive Mor

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SCOTLAND sparkled in late winter. The sky was cloudless when I left Newtonmore to drive west to Glen Coe but the temperature was - 10C. Everything was covered in a blanket of snow and although the amount of snow on the hills was deceptive (much of it had fallen in high winds and had been blown off) it looked quite Alpine.

There was plenty of sun in Glen Coe, but no snow - the west had escaped the blizzards that had swept the eastern highlands earlier in the week. I left my ice-axe in the car and headed towards the steep, grassy slopes of Beinn a'Chrulaiste, a well-placed Corbett that forms a portal to Glen Coe as you approach from the south. Its neighbour, the higher and infinitely more impressive portal, the Buachaille Etive Mor, was attracting a number of walkers, but I wanted to gaze at the bigger hills, rather than gaze down from them.

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Watching the Cold and the Beautiful; Enjoy the Glorious Views As You Walk in the Shadow of Buachaille Etive Mor

During the drive to Glen Coe I decided this wasn't a day for big ascents, long distances or anything as mundane as peak-bagging. This was a day to dawdle on the heights, maybe to snooze in the s...

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