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I hadn't realised I had done this until I checked my diary.  I had stopped at glencoe for a week and did six days walking.  I did this walk on my last day.  It was in 1991 which was a very dry whit.

I can't remember any difficulties apart from crossing the river.  You won't get the dogs across the wire bridge.  The river level was low enough to cross elsewhere when I was there.  There is a section called the devils ridge which is narrow with drops on both sides - but easy enough ( would be a very different story in winter conditions ).   The other thing I remember is the descent from sgurr a' mhaim being hard on the knees after a weeks walking.

There are other lovely ridge walks in the mamores and also the grey corries.  some of the ridges in Glencoe itself - aonach eagach and bcuhaille etive mor would present problems with dogs.

Brian

In the very dry weather I had the devils ridge was an easy walk.  The aonach eagach was something else although I did that on one of the two misty days I had, the other being the day before ( my first day) when I did the buchaille etive mor.  It was quite busy on the ring of steall.  It was very much quiter when I walked from knilochleven to the other peaks of the mamores.

Brian

We used to live in Glencoe, the only advice I would add is be wary of the weather it can and often does turn very cold or very warm in a very short space of time both extremes can cause problems and I think its the start of the Scottish six day trials if they still have it, starting with the pre1965 trial at kinlochleven at the weekend, I hope you have a safe and fantastic hol 

Regards S

You did the right thing, this is not worth doing in poor weather, it is far too spectacular to waste doing it in bad weather. If you do it in sunny warm conditions, or in Winter, you will remember it for the rest of your life. The Boochal isn't a bad replacement, as long as you got the views of Etive, Rannoch, The Ben etc!

I've either been on it or used parts of it to get elsewhere on about 5 occassions, all in great weather, now that is lucky!