Bealach na Bà
A spectacular and sunny three-shot panorama looking south-east back down to Loch Kishorn from about half-way up the Pass.
Bealach na Bà is a historic pass through the mountains of the Applecross peninsula, in Wester Ross in the Scottish Highlands - and the name of a famous twisting, single-track mountain road through the pass and mountains.
The road is one of few in the Scottish Highlands that is engineered similarly to roads through the great mountain passes in the Alps, with very tight hairpin bends that switch back and forth up the hillside and gradients that approach 20%. It boasts the greatest ascent of any road climb in the UK, rising from sea level at Applecross to 626m and is the third-highest road in Scotland.
The name is Gaelic for Pass of the Cattle, Scottish Gaelic: Bealach na Bà, as it was historically used as a drovers' road.
This is a great example of a valley carved by a glacier, although it is not quite the classic U-shape - it would appear that subsequent (but still very old) scree slopes on the left have partially filled in the valley. But without them the modern road just could not get up here! The road is sometimes called the Road to the Summer Isles.
Scanned from negatives.
Bealach na Bà
A spectacular and sunny three-shot panorama looking south-east back down to Loch Kishorn from about half-way up the Pass.
Bealach na Bà is a historic pass through the mountains of the Applecross peninsula, in Wester Ross in the Scottish Highlands - and the name of a famous twisting, single-track mountain road through the pass and mountains.
The road is one of few in the Scottish Highlands that is engineered similarly to roads through the great mountain passes in the Alps, with very tight hairpin bends that switch back and forth up the hillside and gradients that approach 20%. It boasts the greatest ascent of any road climb in the UK, rising from sea level at Applecross to 626m and is the third-highest road in Scotland.
The name is Gaelic for Pass of the Cattle, Scottish Gaelic: Bealach na Bà, as it was historically used as a drovers' road.
This is a great example of a valley carved by a glacier, although it is not quite the classic U-shape - it would appear that subsequent (but still very old) scree slopes on the left have partially filled in the valley. But without them the modern road just could not get up here! The road is sometimes called the Road to the Summer Isles.
Scanned from negatives.