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After a brief stop at Rubh a Bhaid Beithe (point of the alluring beechwood), our course turned due east.
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We now caught sight of Sgorr na Ciche ,the mountain which guards the west entrance of Glen Coe.
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Sgorr na Ciche is Gaelic for "pointed peak of the breast". The Gaels are a poetic lot but they have a point.
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To our south the ridges of Beinn a Bheithir (hill of the thunderbolt) rose into the clouds.
28/02/2009