Bob Law’s Blog: Glamaig, Isle of Skye
A Day on Glamaig
It’s been at least ten years since we had a hill-walking trip to the Scottish Island of Skye. Previous trips, over many decades of walking and rock climbing, had concentrated on the more jagged and knife edged Black Cuillin ridge line but given Skye’s notoriously fickle weather we still had several of the Red Cuillin to do. Glamaig was one of them.
Glamaig
My friend and I motored up, camped on the island, and did Glamaig the next day. Height is a relative concept. Although under Scottish Munro height at 775 metres Glamaig proved to be a big beast of a hill.
We tackled it from the A850 heading directly up its eastern flank. It was unrelentingly steep and rocky with several small cliffs encountered on the way up and no sign of a track.
After scrambling up scree, hundreds of jumbled boulders and near vertical ledges we reached the ridge… knackered, sweating, and thinking we were too old for this sort of nonsense.
The view from the ridge however eased our pain as it was wonderful looking over the Black Cuillin and the surrounding peaks of the Red Cuillin.
The descent was every bit as tough as the way up had been but at least we had bagged a classic mountain.
July, 2022
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