The Red Cuillin

The Isle of Skye is famed for its rugged mountains that are generally out of bounds for simple hill-walkers, such as myself, as most of them require a serious scramble if not a rock climb. However away from the fearsome Black Cuillin are easier hills and some are not that far away. The Red Cuillin are just to the east of the Black Cuillin, but have smoother slopes though are still steep sided. I had a great walk up them in 2008, which is described here, and although not as technical as the complex Black Cuillin, I found the Red Cuillin to be still a lot of work trying to tackle the steep scree slopes.