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From the summit of Spidean
Coinich.
Quinag (Spidean
Coinich) 764m
Quinag consists of three main summits,
Spidean Coinich, to which this story relates, Sail Gharbh and Sail Gorm.
There is a large parking area on the A837 and the walk starts right opposite, cross the
foot bridge and follow the path to the top of the first
ridge, just a few hundred yards, turn left and go towards the ridge then
follow the ridge through a gap in some large rocks then to the
summit, as you get higher the ground gets very rocky but its not
difficult, the ease of assent hides the very dramatic summit
plateau. Indeed the only easy way to the summit is the way you have
just come, once there three sides offer sheer drops. Its here that I
had difficulty. The way to continue is straight across, there is a
ridge going off to the left, just ignore that, it goes nowhere, your
route drops right off the the opposite edge. If you don't like going
near the edge, this is difficult enough, however once you have found
the path, its not too bad at first, but soon I got to a bit which
was very exposed and had quite long drops between ledges. Had I been
by myself I would probably have continued, having got that far, but
the narrow path with long drops made it impossible for me to get my
dog down. There was no margin for error and it felt very exposed, I
could not free up any arms to help my dog down!
So I decided to give up and go back to the top!
If you make it over here, follow the
path to the Bealach a' Chormaidh to ascend the other two summits.
I returned my
the same route and decided to tackle the other summits another day.
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