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Ross Morley-trapnell
wrote on March 28, 2012:
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Completed this walk on the route shown on here. On reflection I think that doing Beinn a'Chroin first may have been a better option. I say this as I think that to walk in via Coire Earb would give you a better sense of the scale of these two mountains, we also would have been happier with a long (at times) boggy walk at the start rather than at the end.
We had a glorious sunny day to walk this route but on the tops the wind was very strong and cold, great views all around.
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Douglas Hazlie
wrote on July 24, 2011:
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Climbed on a glorious sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Typical Scottish hill walking day!!! Quite boggy coming back along Coire Earb as others have commented. Great walk between An Caisteal and Beinn a' Chroin. Bit of scrambling involved in a couple of places but easy enough.
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mackenzie barker
wrote on August 13, 2008:
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Missed the route up to Sron Gharb so I got my GPS to do the route backwards. A really wet, boggy, ankle deep walk, throught the glen. followed the river falloch until we hit waterfall and then started up Stob Glas Bheag. Tough going but made it and it was nice to walk on solid ground, locals told me it'd rained everyday for the past three weeks. got to the first top then over to Bienn a'Chroin stopped for some lunch then continued to Bealach Buidhe then along the ridge to An Baisteal. The walk down from Sron Gharb was a nightmare I could see why I missed path at the start. There isn't one.
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Ian Mitchell
wrote on November 4, 2007:
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Climbed An Caisteal & Beinn a Chroin, although at times An Caisteal was shrouded in mist it turned out to be a relatively fine day .Enjoyed the walk between the two summits where you get the chance to put your hand to rock & enjoy fine views of the surrounding hills.However bad idea on my part to go from Derrydarroch farm,found it an hard slog from there to Twisting hill.Once across the bridge at the back of the farm i found no path and its a trudge across very boggy ground followed by a steep climb to join the main path on Twisting hill.Maybe not too bad in the summer but after recent heavy rain both ways of this section of the walk were hard work. The people i met on the day had climbed both these fine summits from the main parking space on the A82 just before Crianlarich.Would liked to have bagged neighbouring Beinn Chabhair but would have run out of daylight so will leave it for another day.
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Dave Craik
wrote on April 30, 2007:
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Climbed on 29/04/07, great sunny day but a bit windy higher up, followed main track up but missed path up to Sron Ghrabh so had to double back up grass slopes onto top, great views of An Caisteal summit from here and across twisting hill, good hands on climbing onto An Caisteal a steep rocky descend and then a great route onto Beinn a' Chroin, followed path to what I thought was the way down and came across Beinn Tulaichean, just had to be done, followed path from top down onto Stob Glas and down to lower Coire Earb, really boggy path in many parts but worth every minute, approx 7hrs in total.
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Leon Mooney
wrote on April 10, 2007:
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Climbed on 9/4/07 in wet, windy conditions with poor visibility. Began ascending after passing through the gate and I think I missed Sron Garbh, so I just followed the path I found to the summit. In better weather I suppose it would have been an interesting walk, but to me it seemed to have an awful lot of "up and down" to it.
Summit was freezing, so I continued on my way to Beinn a' Chroin.
Came back the same way afterwards and found a better way back down to the farm path once I'd gotten to Sron Garbh.
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Joseph Buchanan
wrote on January 19, 2004:
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Climbed on 5th Jan from Glen Falloch, conditions started off OK as we walked along twisting hill. The weather closed in and as we progressed the snow got deeper and the visibilty got worse. Before reaching the summit we encountered on the route a small crag that would be easy scrambling in better weather but it was a sheer block of ice. Decided to go around it and took the west slope which was not as steep as the east slope, then onto the summit. Decided to leave Beinn a Chroin to another day.
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