Agag's Groove, Buachaille Etive Mor

The VDiff dream team was reunited in fine style this week with an ascent of Agag's Groove on Buachaille Etive Mor.

You've all seen the Buachaille, that fantastically shaped, very photogenic mountain at the top of Glen Coe that cries out to be climbed.

It looks like we picked a perfect day for it too and we set off in high spirits as we marched up the path and scrambled up half of Curved Ridge until we got to the bottom of Rannoch Wall.


The route follows an obvious groove that can be seen from the A82 and looks brilliant as you scramble towards it from below.


We managed to turn a classic 4 pitch VDiff into 5 pitches, we wouldn't be the VDiff dream team if we didn't have some route finding difficulties.

Rich approaching 2nd belay

Rich approaching 4th belay (supposed to be the 3rd we think)

After the 5 pitches we continued the scramble up Crowberry Ridge (with an unintentional trip up Crowberry Tower) which comes out at the summit cairn of Stob Dearg, we had an amble along the ridge that joins it to a second Munro in perfect weather before we headed down and home.

A great route in a brilliant position with not another climber in sight. Lovely.

--Matt