Glen Lichd

Glen Lichd has no road. The track from Morvich follows the River Croe east into the Kintail hills — on foot or mountain bike only, past the Glen Licht House club hut and on to Camban bothy over the watershed at the head of the glen. 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 approach from Glen Lichd, on their north-east side, 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, the highest of the Five Sisters, can be reached from Glen Lichd — 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 and the remote terrain between Kintail and Glen Affric. Camban bothy, just over the watershed at the head of the glen, is a waypoint on the 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.