So back to Beinn a 'Ghlo.
When I arrived at the parking area near Monzie I wasn't too hopeful. It was cloudy and although it wasn't raining there was a distinct feeling of mosture in the air. Walking along the track and got a nice vew back to Loch Moraig.
- Loch Moraig
Arriving at the site of the former shelter - it was definitely no more. The view of the first hill of the day (Carn Liath) suggested a day of clag
- Carn Liath - so they tell me
The initial path was quite boggy in places. Well, I say quite boggy. It was rubbish in fact. And making me feel a bit grumpy too. Things improved though as height was gained, and so did my mood, even if the cloud was staying low. Got a nice view down the path just as I was heading into the clouds
- The Carn Liath path
It's a well eroded path up Carn Liath. Nice, easy going and I was making good progress. It was about the time I stopped to take the previous picture when I disturbed a couple of flapping, screaching creatures. Scarred the @!@! out of me
Once I was in the cloud there wasn't much to report. Was this going to it for the rest of the route
- Carn Liath summit
Didn't hang around once I had taken in the extensive views
and was soon heading down off the (apparently, I couldn't tell ) snaking ridge toward Beinn Mhaol and the next target, Braigh Coire Chruinn bhalgain (BCCB from now on!).And what do you know - 5 minutes off the first summit the cloud starts to clear
- Some views at last
I had thought of running back up to the summit of Carn Liath, but in the time it took to have that thought the cloud returned
So, onwards I went.As I got closer to the saddle with BCCB there seemed to be a battle going on between the cloud and the sun. I remained hopeful that the low cloud would eventually give up and clear away.
I was impressed by the view toward BCCB when it did clear sufficiently.
- BCCB in the mist
- BCCB a few seconds later
Making my way up BCCB the path remains good. Easy to follow and not difficult at all. And the weather seemed to be improving all the time
- View heading up BCCB
And I finally got a view of Carn Liath and the snaking ridge
- Carn Liath from BCCB summit
Summit number two, but it was raining and it was cold with the wind picking up. The price for getting shot of the low cloud perhaps, so probably a price worth paying.
- BCCB summit carin
Didn't hang around long on BCCB, but the route across to the third and final summit looked decent. Carn nan Gabhar.
Perhaps the only tricky bit of this route would be locating the path down from BCCB onto the saddle with Carn nan Gabhar. Especially in mist. Once you are on it though, it's obvious and the remainder of the route up to the summit was easy walking again.
- View back toward descent from BCCB
Low cloud was still sweeping in all the time, but generally things continued to improve and views were opening up all the time
- View from Carn nan Gabhar summit plateau
It was as I arrived on the Carn nan Gabhar summit that I saw what, for me anyway, has to be one of the strangest sights on the top of a hill. On the way down from BCCB I could see a couple of guys make there way up toward Carn nan Gabhar from the WH descent route for this walk. Unfortunately I'm blind as a bat
and need goggles in normal surroundings. For a number of reasons that I won't go into here,I don't wear them out walking though, so these two chaps had been a bit of a blur to me as we made our ways up the hill. When I eventually arrived at the summit I was shocked, surprised, amazed to discover they had taken their mountain bikes all the way to the summit and were preparing to cycle all the way back down again 
I'm since told by a friend this isn't unusual, but it was a new one on me Don't think it's a hobby I'll be taking up any time soon The summit of Carn nan Gabhar is a bit stony, with a cairn (not the summit), trig point (still not the summit) and then another cairn (this one's the summit) - had to point this out to another walker who seemed to think the trig was the high point. Didn't want him to be disappointed.
It was eventually on this final summit that the persisience paid off. Ok, I still had cloud, but I could feel warmth
The sun was shining And there were good sized patches of blue sky - Carn nan Gabhar views from trig point
- Carn nan Gabhar views from summit
I hung around the summit for a little while, enjoying the views and peace and quiet...... well, just enjoying everything really
Eventually it was time to shift. I'd decided to take the alternative route down, via the top of Airgiod Bheinn. Easy walk up, with a nice view back toward Carn nan Gabhar
- Carn nan Gabhar from Airgiod Bheinn
This turned out to be an entertaining end to the trip. The summit is a nice, narrow(ish) and rocky ridge, but there's a good path all along. Was getting good views all along the day's route
- Carn Liath from Airgiod Bheinn ridge
Initially the route down looks steep (and it was) and at times the path veers from excellent to apparently non-existent. This is a good bit near the top
- Route off Airgiod Bheinn
I managed somehow
to stay on the path all the way down, and at one point I thought it became rather tasty Nice and steep, loose slippy gravel. I was having a ball - Path down off Airgiod Bheinn
- And the view back up
The good thing about steep descent paths is that you lose height quickly (slip of course and you lose it much too quickly). Soon enough I was contouring round the base of the hill and making my way onto the long route back to the car. Man, what a bog fest that route back was. Some of the worst I've known
I did get some good views back toward the hills I'd been on though, as well as the burn I had crossed to get back onto the main path - Nice view
- Small, meandering burn
- The path!
You can see from the next picture the cleft in the ridge that the path comes down. Doesn't show on the map, but it provides a lovely, steep path down. I'm glad I took this route off these hills, rather than the suggested WH route.
- Airgiod Bheinn
Got the chance for one good view back as I slopped back through the bog that was a poor,poor excuse for a path and onto the landraover track.
- The final view back
But all good things have to come to an end and for the last 15 or 20 minutes back to the car the weather turned, and it p****d it down
Got soaked, but didn't care. I 'd had a great day on these three. Persistence had paid as I had eventually got some nice conditions on the final summit and enjoyed the steep descent of Airgiod Bheinn. I now have these three down for a good, crisp winters day 
