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Suilven. Photo: John Davidson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My legs are still aching this evening after an epic trek up Suilven yesterday.<\/p>\n

We set off from Lochinver at 9am (after a two-hour drive from Inverness) firstly heading along the minor road to Inverkirkaig, from where a long path leads to Assynt’s iconic mountain.<\/p>\n

It’s only classified as a ‘Graham’ but in the grand scheme of things that doesn’t matter a toss; this is a magnificent lump of rock majestically rising from the mass of bog and rocks that surrounds it. Suilven stands proud and impressively tall and we had already walked 81\/2 miles before we started the real climb.<\/p>\n

After an undulating start, it came as a shock to the legs to scale the steep bealach. Then you see the bizarre wall built up over the bealach. One question – why? But walking through the gap in the wall, a nice easy scramble with some incredible views down over the surrounding landscape leads to the summit. Beautiful!<\/p>\n

It’s a long walk back but a good track takes you most of the way, past Glencanisp Lodge to the village – thankfully we were kindly given a lift just after the lodge, which saved us nearly two miles of tarmac walking at the end of a long, long day. One piece of advice, though – if you want to eat in Lochinver in the summer, book a table! We drove to Ullapool to get a well-deserved meal before heading back to the big bad city!<\/p>\n

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My legs are still aching this evening after an epic trek up Suilven yesterday. We set off from Lochinver at 9am (after a two-hour drive from Inverness) firstly heading along the minor road to Inverkirkaig, from where a long path leads to Assynt’s iconic mountain. It’s only classified as a ‘Graham’ but in the grand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[31,11,15,32,8,30,18],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5M0xs-suilven","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}