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ROUTE 15

Grey Corries Ridge

Start	Aonach Beag summit (NN 197 715)
Distance	8.5km/5½ miles
Total ascent	900m/3000ft
Time	4½hr up
Terrain	Mostly paths but with scrambling, boulderfields, and very steep descent off Aonach Beag

If you like your ridges rocky but not scrambly, this is the place to be. For the seriously ambitious, the description begins at Aonach Beag, with various side-routes joining in as we go along the ridge to Stob Coire Claurigh.

See Grey Corries summit summary map. From Aonach Beag descend following big crag drops on the left, first south, then east over a minor hump. After another 500 metres the ridge turns sharply right, southeast, steepening down to the ridge corner at NN 207 708.

A steep zigzag path leads down to a narrow rib, then down a grassy gully on the right; then keep down to right of broken quartzite outcrops to the wide col at the head of Coire Bhealaich. However, if the steep spur is snow-covered, an easier descent can be made from the col north of Sgurr a’ Bhuic, turning down a gully then contouring left to the wide col.

A small path leads up grass to the top of Sgurr Choinnich Beag. Route 16 joins here. The path continues on pleasant grass through a col and up Sgurr Choinnich Mor.