Walking and Climbing

Nice pic of me! But actually it was taken not quite at the summit, but at the ruins of the Ordnance Survey hut a little way away. The summit cairn is a massive round wall with the trig point inside, if I remember right.

Huge circular cairn but no trig point! May be there used to be one there but it aint now!

Someone must've pinched it Reiver - I remember the cairn as a big circular wall that you could scramble over, and inside was the TP, hidden from view. I believe a lot of surveying was done from there, which is why the OS built the hut in the pic. Maybe that's why they also built the wall round the TP, to keep them out of the wind when they were playing with their theodolites or whatever. Some TPs did get smashed or removed by people who don't like them a few years ago when the OS abandoned them though, so perhaps that's why it's not there anymore.

The OS map does not show a trig point, however there is one on Carn Eige

Here is a Picture of the summit cairn, wish I had included something to give it scale, anyway it is about 6' high 15' diameter and the wall about 3' thick. A substantial summit cairn

I think I might be getting Carn Eige mixed up in my ageing memory with Mam Sodhail ..

I think the OS hut and the picture in the article and the huge cairn were in fact by Mam Sodhail.

And I guess my addled brain must've moved the TP from Carn Eige to inside that wall.

Scuse me.

According to this the cairn on Mam Sodhail was in fact one of the earliest actual triangulation points from the 1840s, but I guess without the wee white pillar.

Did you scramble over the wall and get inside?

Definately no trig point, I climbed over the wall and into the center of the cairn. It did puzzle me at the time why such an effort was made with the buildings and elaborate cairn when then was no trig point, may be the early triangulation efforts did not use the concrete type pillar that we all know, or maybe there was a vanessa tube that got zapped by lightening, few of these left now.

yep .. what got me confused is that in my old photo album i have a photo of a cairn on the same trip with a wall behind it - but i reckon that must've been Carn Eige, which is how i got confused .. i never was much good at writing notes on my photos! i certainly remember sheltering inside the big wall a couple of times. and i have a piece of the fireplace from the hut! coincidentally, i was supposed to be going back there with the mrs a few weeks ago, but she went into hopital for a new hip, so it's gonna be a while before we'll be there again. funny how Mycroft never spotted all this ... ;)

Here the image of the carn iegr trig, notice the Ben in the distance, and on the far right can be seen Mam Sodhail with its massive cairn. (The image is about 1300 wide so you may need to expand it if your browser auto shrinks to fit)

Aye, that looks like the one I have a pic of, though in my pic its covered in hoar frost! Will try and put it up on here for you to see. Is that you finished your first round by the way?

Was on Mam Sodhail a few weeks ago. Used the massive Cairn for shelter. Definetly no trig point in there.

Used Carl the boatmans services & came in over Beinn Fhionnlaidh & Carn Eighe.

John, I once used Carl to do the North side of Loch Mullardoch - where did he drop you off for Beinn Fhionnlaidh? I'm sure you guys are right about no TP - I've just mixed up snaps of Carn Eige and Mam Sodhail in my memory.

Is that you finished your first round by the way
No, still 11 to go, hoping to finnish with the blue mmon at the end of June, need a bit of luck with the weather though.

He dropped us off just East of Fhionnlaidh's NE ridge, just before Loch Mallurdoch narrows. Relatively quick ascent of Fhionnlaidh from here. Certainly a lot easier than walking in & back over the 3 Munro's.
Much bigger time saving than you get on other side of Loch (2-3 hours for walk in to start circuit).

WALKING 09 / 05 / 07

Two-Dayer - Loch Affric Circuit
By Dave Mycroft


Two-Dayer - Loch Affric Circuit, Scotland

Dalness> Ston na Cabar > Kingshouse > Ston Dearg > Dalness

this was copied from the headline of the Affric walk. If you find yourself at either Dalness or Kingshouse while walking around glen Affric, you need to brush up on your navigation :-)

If you find yourself at either Dalness or Kingshouse while walking around glen Affric, you need to brush up on your navigation :-)
you have probably been concentrating too much on the fitness front!

Hmmmm .. does Dave M actually walk these things, or just make them up?

Just added the pictures from my Glen Affric walk to my collection

My Hill Pics
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Arrgh! I am now turning green with envy. Great weather; great pictures.

Hmmmm .. does Dave M actually walk these things, or just make them up?. I would of thought the answer to that was self evident! Whatever would The Angry Corrie make of it ;-)

lol maeve .. virtual walking is so much kinder on the legs too. and your boots don't get dirty either.