Corrour to Spean Bridge

This was a trip that had been on the "to do" list all summer but it took until the end of Novemeber to actually get lined up. The plan was a good point to point one - train up to Corrour then into the Lairig Leacach bothy then out to Spean Bridge over the summits of Sgurr Innse & Creag Innse.

Joe Coll and myself got the lunchtime train north and made quick progress initially whilst we still had some daylight. With the path from the end of Loch Treig buried and light snow showers starting things slowed down a bit ...maybe not a bad thing since we did not want to miss the bothy !

Arrived to find the only other occupant of the bothy a rather friendly (or brave) mouse - on a number of occasions, it had to be chased out of rucksacks, gloves etc ... The overnight was brutal with the bothy being at 465m above sea level and cold beyond what was reasonable. Thankfully, we had my MSR Whisperlite stove which performs a lot better than the usual gas stoves I have so hot food and drink was not an issue.

We left the bothy just before dawn and headed towards Sgurr Innse - finding a route up the craggy face took a bit of time as we balanced being sensible in terms of safety with finding a bit of sport. The initial descent was similar in character. Short hop over to Cruach Innse before a bit of a run out to Spean Bridge (where I got the train time wrong so a bus jounrey south was required).

A top trip and well worth the wait.