| Date | 25 Oct 2024 |
| Route | Link to Route |
| Enjoyable | |
| Difficulty | |
| Conditions | Misty and windy, but dry. Summits occasionally visible in the late afternoon. |
| Summits | ✔ (T) Toman Coinnich [Toman Coinich] ✔ (M) A' Chailleach ✔ (M) Sgurr Breac |
Stayed overnight at the Inverness Youth Hostel, decent accommodation, bonus having a kitchen to heat up soup for the days hike as well as being within an hour of quite a few hill ranges.
We got started just after sunset, headed down the path to Loch a Bhraoin and over the footbridge. A short distance after the bridge is a small marker cairn the left path is the return path following the Allt Breabaig river, we took the other route that heads straight up Sron na Leiter Fhearna. Easy enough ascent, steep at times, but you gain elevation quickly.
From there we followed the path over towards the first top of the day, but at some point we must have joined another path on the right of the plateau and ended up having to strike off the path up a steep ascent to regain the plateau, I doubt this would have happened if the visibility was better.
Once we regained the plateau we soon reached the Munro top, Toman Coinnich, but we didn't hang about as it was quite windy and headed west towards the bealach, Bealach Toll an Lochain where we met some gillies trying to locate some lost sheep.
Following the fence posts from the bealach we ascended A'Chailleach which has some steep drops at various points to the north. Again very windy at the top, so we descended to the bealach to a sheltered rock outcrop that we spotted earlier where we rested and had some lunch.
Skirting around the south of Toman Coinnich we soon found a path that headed up the second munro of the day, Sgurr Breac, where we met the only others we saw that day, a couple with their dog, doing the route in reverse.
The descent from Sgurr Breac felt never ending, with a couple of small parts that Ailidh found tricky, she just needs more practice to get her confidence dealing with larger "steps".
Once we reached the bottom we realised we didn't have enough daylight to attempt the three easterly Munros, but they will still be there for another day. We followed the valley path north, at times quite muddy along with a couple of fords to cross, oddly the one beside an old shieling being the trickiest due to the level of the water; the ford over the Allt Breabaig was straightforward.
