Ciste Dhubh (and Am Bathach)

We (me and the dog) took advantage of the long hours of daylight and took the opportunity for a quick late afternoon stroll up one of the local corbetts, Am Bathach. Am Bathach is a great little hill, you can be at the top in a little over an hour and get great views of the surrounding Munros.

The ascent was the usual, me slogging up with Dyl way ahead looking back wondering what was taking so long.

After a short pause to rebuild the cairn that I sat on at the summit (too much of the wife's home baking!) we decided we'd make the most of being out and head across to the adjoining Munro, Ciste Dubh. The descent is steep but grassy - last time I bum slid down it in the snow. We struggled to find the path up the ridge to Ciste Dubh (the path is obvious in descent, and probably in ascent thinking about it). I asked Dylan to seek it out - my mate Mark's dog, Jack, is great at finding paths -my dog can find bogs, bones, poo and all sorts of smelly undesirables, but not paths.



We eventually met up with the path half way up the ridge and made our way up past An Cnapac to the summit where the sun pretended to come out.


We took in the views for 15 mins or so than headed back down to bealach and followed the An Caorainn Beag. I'm guessing this is where the weekends LAMM passed through because there was a million sets of fell shoe prints on the boggy bits of the path. An easy descent down the Glen and home, just in time for a rapidly cooling dinner. Lovely.

--Matt