Beinn Liath Mhor a’ Ghiubhais Li
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13 August 2015
Many consider Beinn Liath Mhor a’ Ghiubhais Li to be a dull, boggy and not very challenging hill. As it is a short day, it offers an opportunity to climb a hill on a summers evening after work or before a long journey home. I had car troubles in that a warning light had lit up and the speedometer stopped working, so I called out the AA. I saw an AA van pass by but it must have been on its way to another breakdown! Very annoying! Eventually, the AA sent help from an approved garage in Inverness. The car was running fine and was safe (using my GPS as the speedometer). It was just an electronic blip and required a reset.
This meant that it was mid-afternoon before I set off up the hill and I was going to cycle in to Lochavroan Bothy afterwards, so this turned out to be the perfect hill on this occasion. While it is very wet underfoot at the start, there is an intermittent faint path and the upper part of the hill is much more pleasant. I would imagine that this could be a bit of a miserable trudge on a wet day, but on a beautiful sunny day, it was most pleasant with superb views of the Beinn Dearg Hills to the north, Ben Wyvis to the east and The Fannichs to the west. The presence of several Ptarmigan added to the pleasure of climbing Beinn Liath Mhor a’ Ghiubhais Li.
This meant that it was mid-afternoon before I set off up the hill and I was going to cycle in to Lochavroan Bothy afterwards, so this turned out to be the perfect hill on this occasion. While it is very wet underfoot at the start, there is an intermittent faint path and the upper part of the hill is much more pleasant. I would imagine that this could be a bit of a miserable trudge on a wet day, but on a beautiful sunny day, it was most pleasant with superb views of the Beinn Dearg Hills to the north, Ben Wyvis to the east and The Fannichs to the west. The presence of several Ptarmigan added to the pleasure of climbing Beinn Liath Mhor a’ Ghiubhais Li.
It took just under an hour and a half to reach the summit. The SMC guide to the Corbetts and other Scottish hills suggests a route up the side of the Abhainn an Torrain Duibh and a time of two hours. The summit consists of a circular cairn around the rather peculiar remains of a trig point, the likes of which I have not seen anywhere else.
I took a slightly different route back ground, keeping to higher ground and following a broad ridge. This rough was drier underfoot (until the last section approaching the road) and provided much better views including that down Loch Glascarnoch towards Ben Wyvis.
The descent took approximately an hour.