Beep beep beep. It is 05:30 time to move. All my walking clothes are out, a quick wash cereal and coffee. I am the car and away before 6:00. I have planned a long day, I would have gone up the night before but things did not go to plan. So I have a 2 hour drive to Fort William where McDs will provide a coffee and a sausage and egg McMuffin. I would not eat a hash brown if they paid me. So I eat on the move head down the road to roller-coaster of a road beside Loch Arkaig. Only meeting one vehicle driving out towards me, an HGV full of logs that only left me 5 mm to pass. 

I parked at the car park at Glen Dessarry and got the bike out, I had everything in the car the previous night so got ready to go. I cycled up to the last house in Upper Glendessarry and chained the bile up to the fence and started the walk in. I got to Allt Coire nan Uth and crossed it without difficulty and headed north up the south shoulder of Sgurr nan Coireachan. Here I found the bridge over the Allt Coire nan Uth, it is 500 m to the south. This is a long slog, relentlessly steep. Got to the top and got fantastic views. There is a very steep decent to the bealach and headed for Garbh Cioch Bheag then along the ridge to for Garbh Cioch Mhor. This is a fantastic section with scrambling in a lot more places than you would expect. There is still snow to the sheltered side of the hill but I never had to get my ice axe out. Yes I did have it just in case. Following the dry stone wall that runs most of the way and keeps you away from the northern cliffs and corries, I got to the top. Again the views were fantastic although a little hazy out to the islands.

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Looking at my third Munro of the day Sgurr na Ciche it still had snow on the south side and I could see where others had walked. But where the snow stopped it was unclear what the best way to ascend would be. So I dropped down to the col, climbing over some rocky outcrops and the snowy slushy bealach. I followed the snow step I had observed and at their end a faint path through the scree could be seen. I followed this to the ridge where it was an easy walk to the summit. Fantastic views to Loch Nevis, Loch Quoich, the islands and surrounding hills.

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I lingered a bit, it was just before 16:00, I was tired and I knew it was a good three hours to the car. So down to the bealach and into the gully, now this is interesting on all sorts of levels, but you will have to go and see for yourself. Out the gully and I picked out a faint path that later became an off road vehicle track and followed this down. I had by this time run out of water but there is plenty about in the glen. A bus must have pulled in to the car park I passed over 20 people making their way to Sourlies including two rotund Germans. I then got back to the bike, fought of the advances of a cow then a nice glide back to the car at 19:30, 10:30 on the hill. I was feeling it and had a bit of the sun about me. I read that these three hills are not to be underestimated and I have to agree, this was hard work but I got a superb day for it finding it very rewarding.

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