Ridge walking on Quinag

Heather and Ewan have now left Lochinver, and the rest of us set off to climb Quinag today, looking forward to a sunny day promised by the weather forecast. As we approached the hill however, we saw that it was wreathed in low clouds, and wondered if we would see any view at all. As we made our way up the large stone slabs on the slopes the cloud lifted above us and by the time we reached the first summit the day was fine and sunny, and we had stunning views all around us of the beautiful mountains and lochs of Assynt. My favourite part of the day was walking along the narrow ridges between the tops of the hills before Cat and I descended from the bealach and the boys went on to the other two main summits. I gave Cat (and myself) a fright by stumbling and falling on a narrow part of the ridge and for a moment I really thought that I was going to tumble for hundreds of feet! I landed on my bottom on a rock just below the ridge but then the momentum made me continue falling downwards onto the next rock! I think that Cat was quite alarmed and I had to take a minute to recover! It was a good four and a half hour walk with about 700 metres of ascent, which is a lot for me.
On returning to the car, Cat and I nipped off to the Kylescu Hotel where we sat outside and had a refreshing drink while watching huge bags of mussels being unloaded from a boat onto the jetty. It was really hot and sunny and we had a nice chat. Later we collected our sweaty boys and the five of us had a delicious tea back at the Kylescu Hotel.