On Top Of The World...

...tired and triumphant. The walk to An Sgurr at 393 metres above sea level is not as bad as feared when viewed from the jetty (seen down on my left), especially with a lunch break on the heathery slope just below the slanting columnar basalt layer. From there the walk levels out before a scramble up a gully and steady rise over nice grippy pitchstone at the top, giving spectacular views to the mainland and islands.

Formed by the flow of lava into a river valley, the Sgurr pitchstone is a particularly hard, glassy rock, which resisted glacial erosion of the valley walls.