SCORCHER ON AONACH BEAG

The wonderful south ridges onto Aonach Beag

Looking back to Glen Nevis

Ben Nevis & CMD from the summit of Aonach Beag

The actual  summit of Aonach Beag is only inches from the corrie lip!

The impressive Ruadh  Eigg Buttress and Aonach Mor beyond

Yet another day of clear blue skies and warm sunshine, light breeze. I was out on Aonach Beag today and the finest walking route to the top is via the south Munro Tops from Steall Meadows, I suspect that the vast majority of Munro baggers get the gondola up from Nevis Range and go over Aonach Mor then across the plateau to Aonach beag-shame on you! :) I never usually see anyone on this longer more scenic and full of interest route, though there was one guy just in front of me today as he kindly trail broke the route in the very soft snow. There is snow still lying from around 1000m and on this south side it has the full heat of the sun so it is melting very quickly. The south side and I suspect most of the CMD arete is now well melted, compared to just a couple of days ago where the snow was still lying in large volumes, well it is May after all! The view from the top of Aonach Beag is fabulous, looking across to Ben Nevis, the CMD arete and over the Grey Corries and Mamores. There is a lovely ridge down to the Ruadh Eigg Buttress which gives spectacular views and makes a fine circuit back to Steall. Finally a great run down Glen Nevis on the bike to cool off from another very warm day. One more to come tomorrow then it's back to some wintry showers on Friday!