| Date | 20 Sep 2025 |
| Route | Link to Route |
| Enjoyable | |
| Difficulty | |
| Conditions | Very windy at times, some sleet and hail showers |
| Summits | ✔ (T) An Cabar ✔ (M) Ben Wyvis - Glas Leathad Mor |
Another early start and a long drive up past Inverness to arrive at the Ben Wyvis car park just before 9am, luckily there were still a few spaces available.
Heading north east past the information signage, a path heads alongside the road. After a few hundred metres a footbridge takes you across the Allt a' Bhealaich Mhòir, then shortly the path turns east, through a fence and heads uphill along side the stream.
Around a kilometre the path intersects with a forestry road, we headed over the road and continued the gentle ascent alongside the stream. A short while later we heard some bagpipes and found a lone piper playing the flower of Scotland. We got a further surprise when he asked us to film him playing in a down under accent!
Continuing the gentle ascent we soon left the forested area and the path soon heads north east away from the stream and after a few wide switchbacks we reached the start of some well built steps. After the steps it became very windy, with significant wind chill, Ailidh deciding to don her balaclava to keep warn. The path continues zig zagging steeply mostly on well a rutted gravely path with a couple of sections of steps, one of which to the south felt quite exposed on the return journey.
Finding a sheltered area around half way, we stopped for some soup, during which quite a few people past us heading in both directions. After resuming our ascent we met a couple of groups of people that had past us earlier, deciding the wind was too much for them, so had turned back after the Munro Top.
We decided to continue up to the Munro Top, An Cabar, and were rewarded with the conditions improving quite a bit. At the shelter cairn we took another short break, before heading across the plateau towards the main target of the day. Along the way we had a couple of short showers of hail and sleet, but only a minor inconvenience.
Around the second bump on the plateau we spotted someone with an odd looking pole sticking out of his pack, which after we passed, we could see was an aerial, was that the radio guy?
We soon reached the summit of Ben Wyvis, the Munro Glas Leathad Mor. The views while crossing the plateau and at the summit today were truly fantastic. After taking some time for a few pictures, we returned via the same route, taking only a couple of short stops, we arrived back at the car in just over two hours.
After a very welcome brew up, we started the long trek home.
