After crosing the bridge it was a steady climb up the hill towards Derry Cairngorm through the pines ,wanted to have the long walk out at the end oppose to a long walk in (which i was glad as my feet were feeling it at around the 14mile mark and the boulder field on DC would have been hard going ).We arrived at the summit of Derry Cairngorm in 3 hours from the car with the wind very gusty so we thought we'll head down a bit for our lunch at Loch Etchachan (probably the most stunning place ive ever sat and had my piece to date.
Looking up from the bealach the climb up Beinn Mheadhoin looked a steep relentless slog but once onto to it as always wasnt as bad as initially thought and soon levelled off to a nice final ascent up to the tors which look even bigger in real life .The climb up the summit tor was quite simple aswell even the dog (Archie) made it right up
