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Saturday 1 August
Now I'll admit I was sceptical about this one. It had suffered from some mixed reviews - uninteresting; no enjoyment; only there and back.
No, it's not spectacular. It's not got towering crags or scary precipitous ridges. But, hey, what do you expect?
- Schiehallion from across Loch Kindarochy
It's a hill - on it's own - a simple but comfortingly satisfying shape - it's a Ronseal type of hill. To plagiarise John Cleese - what do you want from it - the Hanging Gardens of Breadalbane or wandering packs of wolves and beaver?
But it's got position - location, location, location - views, panoramas and the realisation of little of Scotland some of us English really know
- Loch Tummel
On a late Saturday morning I had choices - revisit battle sites at Killiecrankie - retail therapy at House of Bruar - blow the cobwebs away up a hill. A no brainer.
Park at the Braes
Push on up the crafted path
Piroutte across the stones and boulders of the ridge
Scamble along the final top
Spend a little time at one end or the other and few feet below growing crowd
Meander back down - three hours out - and much enjoyed
- Loch Rannoch from summit
I'll probably spend more time playing with the piccies on Photoshop and putting together the panoramas - but it wasn't a waste of time.
- Worsening weather over Schiehallion from Loch Tummel