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Pitlochry with The Beards: Day 2 - West of the A9

Pitlochry with The Beards: Day 2 - West of the A9

Postby Jobbo » Thu Mar 20, 2025 8:14 pm

Route description: A' Mharconaich and Geal Chàrn, Drumochter

Munros included on this walk: A' Mharconaich, Geal-chàrn (Drumochter)

Date walked: 03/11/2024

Time taken: 6 hours

Distance: 13 km

Ascent: 731m

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Day 2 of The Beard's adventures takes us to A' Mharconaich and Geal Chàrn west of the A9. Driving in made us think that we were going to get a repeat of Shi*-hallion the day before :crazy: .

We persisted anyway and ended up with an absolute textbook cloud inversion, and optical illusions in the mist. A fantastic adventure.

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Not again...


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Clearing up??


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Summit of Geal Chàrn


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Was actually pretty busy for such a nothing hill


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Looking over at target 2


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Time to leave Geal Chàrn


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Plenty of people


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The Beards heading to A' Mharconaich


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Brocken Spectre


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At the summit of A' Mharconaich


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Schiehallion. Wish it was like this yesterday!


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Back towards the A9


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Jobbo
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