The awesome grandeur of Loch Hourn from Beinn Sgritheall with Skye, Sound of Sleat, Rum, Eigg, Loch Nevis, North Morar and the Ardnamurchan Peninsula, beyond.

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The wonderful, wild, grandeur of this remarkable West Coast of Scotland, is so manifest here.
Way back, twelve years ago, my son and I visited Bealach Ratagan, the Five Sisters of Kintail, Glenelg, the Sandaig Islands and the site of Gavin Maxwell’s “Camusfearna.” 
Then……the stark, pristine magnificence of Loch Hourn, a fjord/sea-loch, par-excellence.
From Arnisdale, we began our ascent of Beinn Sgritheall, on the northern shore.
The meandering path is steep up to the coll.
Then we peered west, up to a scree slope that in places reached over 35 degrees, beyond 800 metres in elevation.
The gradient and the ice-shattered scree took its toll and slowed our progress.
After three hours of toil we peaked the secondary top at nigh on 1,000 metres, 3,000 feet.
South-East is Barrisdale Bay, where the loch turns east inland for a further five miles, culminating at Kinloch Hourn.
Ben Nevis (33 miles) and Sgurr na Ciche can also be clearly seen in this direction.
South is the majestic, knife-edge ridge of Ladhar Bheinn (1,020 metres).
South-West is Beinn na Caillich and the part of Knoydart jutting out into the Sound of Sleat.
A glimpse of Loch Nevis, the Sleat Peninsula on Skye, the Islands of Rum (in cloud) and Eigg and the Ardnamurchan Peninsula (40 miles) can also be seen to the South-West.
To the West the superb volcanic horse-shoe of the serrated Black Cuillins stand imperially.
Standing on this God-like, stone-shattered site, the world was ours.
The drama in all directions was breath-taking.
But this fjord, this twisting, curving, graceful sweep of grey-blue water was mesmerising.
Cars are full-stops, dwellings-mere hyphens and moored boats were miniscule commas.
Cradled in an ice-scoured gouge in the landscape up to almost 4,000 feet deep, half a mile to three miles in width and fourteen miles in length this sea-loch makes a marked impression.
Startling, astounding, magnificent, awe-inspiring.
No words seem to suffice, but so far, it has proved to be unforgettable.  


   

Taken in: UK / Scotland / Arnisdale (show map)

Taken on: May 31, 2006

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