Arriving late on the Tuesday evening, we left reasonably early the next day to drive north to Coulags in Strath Carron with a view to climb An Ruadh-stac. The weather was perfect with no wind, blue skies and a warm sun which was starting to melt the overnight frost as we set off up the Fionn-abhainn. There was a light dusting of snow on the tops and the path up to the bealach was frozen solid where the sun hadn't touched it. We stopped at the lochans for a quick snack then climbed southwest, first up steep slabs then steeper loose rock, to the summit.
Summit of An Ruadh-stac and view west
The next day we decided to drive in to Kinloch Hourn to climb Sgurr nan Eugallt. I had failed to reach the top of this Corbett two years ago when we had to turn back from the ridge due to very strong winds, and then last year the landslip on the Loch Quoich road meant I had to change my plans to climb it along with Beinn Bhuidhe.
This time the weather conditions were perfect as we left the car near the Coireshubh ruin and set off up another excellent stalkers' path, very soggy in places, and on to the ridge which narrowed and steepened. There was more snow here than on yesterday's mountain but there were no difficulties climbing up to the trig point before walking northwest along the broad, snow covered ridge towards Sgurr Sgiath Airigh.
