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A perfect start to my holidays, (Day 1) dropped of by the wife and kids at the car park 9am with excellent weather so was off like a shot as the midgie's were on the attack. I headed up in the direction of Cairn Lochan to take a right turn to Creag an Leith-choin to get back down to Lairig Ghru and on to the path leading to Braeriach. Once on to the path I started meeting quite a few others heading for Braeriach summit but soon passed once at Sron na Lairige as they were taking a break. Finally reaching the summit it felt like had took ages but it was well worth it as I couldn,t believe the how good the weather was and the views were spectacular so I was straight off to the Angels peak next as I couldn,t wait to get round there. By this time it was heating up a good bit and of course I took everything apart from the sun cream with me but thankfully once on the summit of Angels peak it had cooled down a bit. It was quite busy at the summit so I carried on to Cairn Toul, the view at the summit was excellent so decided to have a bite to eat and admire the view for a while. It was then to Devils point where on the summit I decided to rather than camp at the Corrour Bothy to head up Carn a' Mhaim, legs were getting a bit tired at this point but got up eventually to drop the bag and head up to the summit to take a few snaps and head back down just before the climb up the side of Ben Macdui to set up camp for the night at 8pm. So made the tea and got the head down, not to bad a night slept pretty good apart from getting up at 4am. (Day 2) 4am I took a peak outside and couldn,t see much due to low cloud so I was back in the sleeping bag for a couple more hours to waken to another glourious day so put the breakfast on packed up the gear and was off to Derry Cairngorm at 7am it was roasting when I got to the summit and thought I would take the t-shirt off as there was a little breeze, bad mistake I,ve never experienced a swarm of midge like that before and was running down the side off Derry Cairgorm like a shot nasty little gits. I headed towards Sgurr an Lochan Uaine and took a very faint path down, not the best route but got down to Glen Derry to carry on up the path to Fords of Avon Refuge and on to Bynack More. Took a while but finally got to the summit nackered so took a good rest before a long walk out which would take me out at the Reindeer centre 4pm. An absolute belter.
- Cairn Toul up ahead
- The view down from Lurchers crag
- Carn a' mhaim on the right, Dedils point and Cairn Toul on the left
- Braeriach summit
- Looking back at Angels peak
- Ben Macdui
- Cairn Toul summit
- Devils point
- Lairig Ghru
- Corrour bothy
- Carn a' Mhaim summit
- Looking over from Carn a' Mhaim summit to Devils point
- The spectacular view in the morning from Sron Riach
- Derry Cairngorm summit
- The way down I took form Derry Cairngorm
- Glen Derry
- Fords of Avon refuge
- Bynack More summit
- The path out fro Bynack More
