Canyons and waterfalls (Eas a’ Chual Aluinn)

This post was in response to Eas a’ Chual Aluinn

Great report but the photograph accompanied by “This was some interesting rock formation near where I suspect the trailhead for the hard hike to Eas a’ Chual Aluinn was” is about a quarter of a mile north of the start of the walk in to Eas a’ Chual Aluinn. We always comment on this feature when we drive past it (which is about 10 times a year, Assynt being our favourite area!)calling it “the canyon”. The burn which runs through the canyon comes from Loch na Gainmhich and itself forms an impressive fall where it flows over a horizontal slab of pipe rock at the exit from the loch before dropping vertically into the gorge. I’ll try to get a photo of it on our next trip but given the vertical nature of the drop and the precipitous sides, it’s a potentially dangerous location. I suspect the way to do it would be by walking/scrambling up the gorge from the location of your photo to reach the base of the fall althought never having done it, I don’t know how possible this is.