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Catching up on old reports from September while sitting in front of the fire to avoid the wet snow of Storm 'Bert' (bit difficult to take seriously with a name like that).
We did the White Mounth round on 17th September, which was a very quiet day (too quiet?), There was literally not a breath of wind on the summit of Lochnagar, which felt a bit unnatural. Thankfully we managed to get more water half way round at the head of the Allt an Dubh-Loch, otherwise it would have been a very thirsty day. Overall it was a perfect day, with a very light breeze developing later on that meant the only really uncomfortably hot part of the day was the initial climb up Lochnagar.
- Beautiful morning heading along the track from the Spittal of Glenmuick car park
- Allt-na-Giubhsach House
- Lochnagar and Lochnagar (or I guess more correctly Cac Carn Beag and Lochnagar). I was a sweaty mess going up here without a breath of cooling breeze, and was seriously concerned about whether the whole round was going to be feasible in the heat
- Cac Carn Mor
- The Lochnagar Indicator - just celebrated its 100th birthday in July!
- Loch nan Eun and Lochnagar from the Stuic, a classic lunch stop viewpoint
- After lunch it was a short stroll up to the second summit of Carn a' Choire Bhoidheach
- We reached the third summit, Carn an t-Sagairt Mor, relatively quickly and having filled up with water at the bealach and a slight cooling breeze and some high cloud coming in for cover, the going was a lot more pleasant than the early climb up. The two tops of Carn an t-Sagairt Mor are both shown as 1047 m.
- Though this more northerly one is labelled as the summit
- Looking back from here though, the southern one looks higher. In any case it would be a tragedy to do the round in bad visibility and miss this second one, it being the furthest point on the circuit and the same height as the first one..
- Crowberry pie anyone?
- Starting on the southern part of the round, with the White Mounth on the left and Cairn Bannoch on the right
- Summit of Cairn Bannoch, with Eagles Rock and the White Mounth waterfalls behind and Lochnagar in the distance
- The aptly named Broad Cairn
- Spectacular views along Loch Muick from the top of Broad Cairn
- From the summit of Broad Cairn, we still had 1/3 of the circuit to complete in the long descent along the tops and then the shoreline of Loch Muick. Here looking south across the Black Burn - thinking I was very glad we didn't have to attempt to cross that!
- The very Nordic-looking coire of the Allt an Dubn-Loch at the western end of Lock Muick
- Glassy Loch, Muick.
A very rare day in the hills - almost perfect hillwalking weather and conditions. We were very lucky to have chosen this day for the very long circuit of the White Mounth munros.
