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Went to Glen Lyon a couple of months after buying my first car, and did the normal round from Invervar. I was so excited to finally have a car that I insisted on going the Great Western Road / A82 / Crianlarich route instead of the M9, almost as a homage to all my bus journeys over the previous years.
A brief stop at Loch Iubhair (that's not my tent).
Watch out!
I COME FROM A LAND DOWN UNDER!!!
After parking in Invervar I spotted a deer stalking sign that looked like it had been based on Alan Partridge's World Cup '94 Soccermeter. Still not quite made sense of it.
It all looked quite straightforward at first, but then I struggled to find the Lint Mill...
Erm. I had followed my nose into a large wood with no discernible path. After 5-10 minutes of wandering around I decided to double back to the road and try again.
Phew! Where's VAR when you need it?
The path led uphill to some sort of large construction site: all in all, not the most pleasant start to a hillwalk...
Like a Persimmon site 1/4 of the way through construction.
The construction road at least made for quick progress uphill, and at 410m I found the bridge leading to the Carn Gorm path.
Lovely! See you later guys.
Finally I was heading out into the wilds (well, relative wilds - this is a busy circuit of four Munros).
Cloud was now brushing the summit of Carn Gorm.
Eventually I made it to the summit. Carn Gorm is a giant so even with the 200m head-start it's a straight 830m or so of ascent.
The trig point has seen better days(!)
I headed round on the path that bypasses An Sgòrr.
A line of fenceposts now led the way towards Meall Garbh,
2/4! And one of the most unusual "cairns" you'll ever see.
Schiehallion (I think).
Between the fenceposts and the path, the route was obvious enough over to Meall a' Bharr, which leads onto Carn Mairg.
Ah.
Well that's not the summit eh.
The path led up to what looked like a small tor on the summit of Carn Mairg.
I escaped from the clouds by heading over the other side to the col with Meall Liath.
Finally I arrived at the hill so good they named it twice - Creag Mhor (Meall na Aighean).
There were fine views of Glen Lyon throughout the descent.
Ah, you again. Any chance you could fix that trig point at the top of Carn Gorm?
Exit via Lint Mill, which thankfully I have located now.
Stopped off at Fortingall on the way back to see the Yew Tree, renowned as one of the oldest (possibly the oldest) tree in Britain.
It was impressive. I was expecting it to be taller for some reason, but it was much thicker than I'd imagine, A little bit of history tucked away near Loch Tay...
