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Saturday 20/06/09.
7.30am
Leaving the car park at the side of the loch,head through the east gate entrance to Ardvorlich estate following the burn and then the road towards Ardvorlich house where there is a sign posted by the estate showing the direction for walkers to take .
Heading up a land rover track towards the Ben with views back down towards Ardvorlich house and loch Earn opening out.
following the land rover track all the way until it soon becomes a well maintained path heading onto the Ben its self.
This path is easily followed up the hill until you reach a fork in the track keep to the left side and then carry on until the top which comes up very quickly considering its a munro .
Sorry no pictures of the first top as by now at 10.30am the cloud had dropped and the rain was battering down(what forecast).
From her head off NW towards the second top of the day Stuc a'Chroin.
Just as we were descending down the path which becomes very steep here a little break in the weather gave us the first glimpse of the way up.
There is a fair bit of decent before you start to climb up the next hill ,once you cross the boulders the path is pretty visible but it is very steep here and some light scrambling is required.
Once over the top there is a cairn which isn't the top.
The path goes around the cairn and on towards the true top another 20 to 30 minuets walk .
The path goes around the corrie now for a different route back then rejoins the way up at the fork we left at earlier and descends back to the house and finally the car park at 2.30pm with an hour of stops, all in all a great day out with some scrambling and some great views when the weather permitted .