Memories of summer III

[johnbythell]

This was a more typical summer memory for me, rainy and windy days. We were staying with a friend in Glen Lyon and I actually took two days to do these two (15 and 17 August), snatching brief weather windows when it was hopefully just windy rather than dangerously windy. I took the only real options out and back as in the WH descriptions:

Meall Buidhe 15 Aug 2024.gpx Open full screen  NB: Walkhighlands is not responsible for the accuracy of gpx files in users posts

Stuchd an Lochan 17 Aug 2024.gpx Open full screen  NB: Walkhighlands is not responsible for the accuracy of gpx files in users posts

Very wet under foot. I took the right hand option of Meall Buidhe for the first day, here on the lower slopes up from the car park at the Giorra Dam

Some lovely views across Glen Lyon to distract from the wet and boggy approach in the middle third

Loch an Daimh mostly empty, presumably for work on the dam rather than lack of rain

The first cairn on reaching the broad summit ridge

Dramatic scenery looking across Rannoch Moor towards Glencoe

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Meall Buidhe summit cairn

Very breezy, but beautiful views back across Glas Choire

Heading back down to the dam

And then up the other side two days later in a short window when the winds eased a little

The cloud was lower today and it was wet underfoot but the going a lot less boggy on this side

The distinctive Lochan nan Cat

But the summit was in the clag and the winds whipping back up on the summit

So I made a hasty retreat back down to the dam