Ben More Assynt

Park at the public car park in front of the Inchnadamph Hotel. Walk north over the River Traligill bridge on the A837 and turn right along the private road to Inchnadamph Lodge, past the hostel and through a gate, crossing the Allt Poll an Droighinn on a concrete bridge. Beyond the whitewashed cottage of Glenbain a good path continues up the glen past a plantation; at the fork keep left (right goes to the Traligill caves) along the north side of Gleann Dubh. After about 4.5 km the climb begins: a boggy stretch, then a badly eroded path up the north side of the Allt a' Choinne Mhill to a shallow grassy corrie. Cross the burn and climb the band of quartzite crags by a rocky staircase just right of the burn (a few cairns), reaching the upper corrie and the bealach between Conival and Beinn an Fhurain. A stony path climbs Conival's north ridge, with views into Coire a' Mhadaidh, to the wind-shelter cairn on Conival (987 m). Head east down crags and boulders, along a stony arête with some awkward moves on exposed slabs (care when wet) and up more scree over point 974 to the summit of Ben More Assynt (998 m), a shattered lump of quartzite. The ridge is slower going than it looks despite only about 100 m of re-ascent. Return the same way over Conival and down the glen.