Gairloch - Scottish Rock Volume 2 - Pesda Press

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Waterfall Buttress
GAIRLOCH (short loch)
This is the ancient parish between Loch Torridon and Outer Loch Broom. The sea lochs
of Gair Loch, Loch Ewe, Little Loch Broom and Gruinard Bay split the coastline into a
number of low-lying peninsulas. Sandwiched between Little Loch Broom to the north
and Loch Maree to the south, “the great wilderness” of the Letterewe and Fisherfield
‘Forests’ contains the renowned remote Carn Mor and the contrasting Beinn Lair, which
presents the greatest escarpment of Hornblende Schist in the country. At the east end
of Loch Maree, the varied quartzite walls of the Bonaid Dhonn on the southern slopes
of the more readily accessible Beinn a’ Mhuinidh give some atmospheric routes with
a fine outlook down the loch. By contrast, around the periphery of the mountains is
a fine varied range of easily accessible low lying outcrops, all composed of excellent
rough Lewisian gneiss. Recent developments have uncovered a fine range of routes
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