Glen Lichd

Glen Lichd has no road. The track from Morvich car park follows the Abhainn Chonaig northeast into the Kintail hills — on foot or mountain bike only, with Camban bothy the first shelter after 10km. Most walkers know the Five Sisters of Kintail from the layby on the A87: five steep ridges rising from the north, one of the most photographed mountain views in Scotland. The south approach from Glen Lichd shows a different mountain entirely — the back sides of those ridges, steep and grassy, with the glen floor far below and no one else on the path.

Sgurr Fhuaran (1067m), the highest of the Five Sisters, can be reached from the Abhainn Chonaig valley — a longer, harder ascent than the A87 route, with no cairns and significant route-finding required in poor visibility. The glen also gives access to Ciste Dhubh (979m) and the remote terrain between Kintail and Glen Affric. Camban bothy, 10km in, is a critical waypoint on the two-day Kintail–Glen Affric through-route — one of the classic multi-day crossings in the northwest Highlands.

The Kintail estate is National Trust for Scotland property, gifted in 1944. There is no stalking restriction on NTS land, so the through-route is walkable throughout the year without needing to check access seasons. In wet conditions the ground in the upper glen becomes very boggy — this is not a glen for a wet-day consolation plan.