A 10pm departure form Kilmarie suggested that despite it being June, we weren’t likely to reach Coruisk in daylight – how wrong we were! Still at least the rain had stopped. A fairly quick and uneventful walk as far as Camasunary gave no indication of what was to follow – although I wonder if Jim T and Barry knew something we didn’t as they had already decided to stop there for the night.
With daylight fading we started to walk upstream to find a suitable place to cross the river coming quickly to the normal crossing point. It didn’t look to promising so we decided to go a little further, and a little further, and a little further…. to cut a long story short we reached a point on the opposite bank to the bothy and hour later. Still it shouldn’t take long to walk round the coast now - should it? A few diversions (and hours) later we had negotiated a fairly wet Bad Step and were approaching the stepping stones at the outflow from Loch Coruisk. The water raging past and over them suggested that wading alongside them, on the upstream side was the best option, enlivened by some high pitched squawks when the cold water
reached as high as… yes, you’ve guessed it. A somewhat surprised Albert (who had come in earlier by boat, along with Elizabeth) welcomed us at around 2.45am – as did the dawn!
Saturday saw somewhat limited activity by Colin Ian & Sharon – sleeping and replacing the water supply being the main tasks. Albert and Elizabeth showed much more dedication by walking to the top of Coruisk, while Jim & Barry arrived after a decent walk in via Glen Sligachan.
Sunday threatened to be no better with choppy seas as well so we decided that, rather than risk waiting for the boat at 6pm, we would walk out – another evening walk / wade and late finish being less than appealing. But, in keeping with the levels of accuracy of this weekend’s predictions, the wind dropped, the rain went off and the sun came out! Still – at least we all had a good walk back out via the Glen Sligachan path and the southern slopes of Blaven to rejoin the Camasunary path back to the cars.
Colin S
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