East Ben Lawers Group

[johnbythell]

The weather was a lot more promising today than yesterday and the cloud stayed mostly high and the rain only came in short squalls, so a very pleasant day to complete the eastern 4 Munros in the group.

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High cloud and clear skies - looking good! View down to Loch Tay after clearing the trees.

Beautiful day to be in the valley, unfortunately this is near where I turned off north for the long slog up the grassy slopes of Meall Greigh

The slope up is pretty grinding, but the unfolding views are spectacular

Rain squalls coming down over the corrie, with Ben Lawers, An Stuc and Meall Garbh in the background

..and the skies were clear 10 min later

View of the eastern end of Loch Tay.

The summit of Meall Greigh with the Lochan Nan Cat and the other 3 Munros behind

Its a pretty long trudge round to Meall Garbh, with more fleeting rain showers blowing through, pretty much as forecasted.

On the summit, with An Stuc in the background

From the top of the tricky section on the short climb up to An Stuc

The rock scrambling lower down is relatively straightforward but these sloping, muddy sections higher up that need a lot of care to avoid a slip

But the views down onto Lochan nan Cat are spectacular

On the summit with the final objective, Ben Lawers in the background.

Looking back to An Stuc from the cairn on Creag An Fhithich, which is easy scrambling and not exposed.

The final few metres

The summit trig point

The upper eastern ridge is rocky but straightforward

And this soon changes into short-cropped grass for an easy descent following the broad ridgeline

Pro-tip: from the bottom of the steeper ridgeline, follow the grassy sward to the right of this grey/white rock in the centre far view

And there is a faint path through the grass that avoids all the peat groughs - this joins up to the main path near the burn.

which leads pleasantly down to the bridge crossing just shortly above where I turned off to go up the slopes of Meall Greigh

A really great weather-window day for the Lochan Nan Cat circuit.