Scotland's northwest is one of the finest places in the world, and Torridon is particularly special. It has knockout landscape, geology, mountains, scenery, sea lochs and mountain lochans, remoteness, peace, wildlife, people: and when all that's combined with wall to wall sunshine, just enough snow on the tops for even more spectacular walking, and stunningly clear air - views all the way from the Cairngorms to the Outer Hebrides - well, it makes for a fantastic weekend. We stayed, unusually, at the youth hostel - well run and comfortable and full of happy hill walkers and climbers. Decided that in the wintry conditions we weren't up for scrambling the ridge of Liathach, one of the Torridon 'giants', which I've been longing to climb for years, and instead chose two lesser in stature but no less wonderful hills. Slioch on Saturday, and Sgorr nan Lochain Uaine (the peak of the blue lochans, although they're icy white lochans at the moment) on Sunday. We bumped into two people in total over the two days, slapped on the sunscreen, slogged up snowy corrie slopes and precariously stepped across narrow snowy ridges, and were rewarded with about the best views in the country. And lots of Easter chocolate too, of course!
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| Liathach morning reflections |
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| Southwest ridge of Sgorr nan Lochan Uaine |
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| The sportingly snowy east ridge of Slioch |
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| Torridon sunset |
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