As has been the case with my recent climbs, the weather wasn't great and because of this I ploughed on and didn't pause too often for photographs. Anyway, I parked up just past the information board, a hundred metres or so away from the dam at Loch an Daimh and set off for Meall Buidhe. Follow a rough track north from the information board for a couple of hundred metres or so then strike off for a path up the hill which takes you to the wide summit ridge.
From here it is an easy walk to the summit cairn. Just after I set up the camera for the shot the mist rolled in and weather got worse.
For the descent I just reversed the route and took a photo of Loch an Daimh en route, when I got below the mist.
Once back to the car I paused for lunch and a few cuppa's, freshly brewed using my indispensible Trangia while keeping my fingers crossed that the weather would get better... which it didn't. I could tell it wouldn't be pleasant at the summit.
The path up the hill starts not long past the dam and though initially a small gradient it does get quite steep and along with the wet weather causing the rocky path to move a lot underfoot it's certainly interesting! At one point the path resembled a fast flowing stream.
You emerge just below the minor top, Creag an Fheadain and there's a small cairn, which is handy for the navigation on the return leg with the mist beginning to get quite thick, so you know where to head back down. You come across some old rusty fence posts and follow these all the way to the sumit cairn of Stuchd an Lochain. Although I took more photo's before reaching the cairn I didn't bother including them as, well, they are pants.
I only stayed long enough for the photo at the summit then headed back down as there was no point in sight seeing when I could only see yards in front of my face! Once I got near the base of Stuchd an Lochain I noticed some sheep were blocking the path and they tried to stare me out for quite a while til they eventually buggered off.
Once back to the car I noticed that the sheep were the least of my worries. I took a photo of a young highland coo and her mother at the information board but the mother who stood in front of the gate with her young 'uns blocked my way out and waited for a long time before moo-ving on (groan!)
