Derry Cairngorm and Beinn Mheadhoin
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:28 amAs i promised i would be back to do these in the near future with the forecast looking good today was that day. I left the car park at 830 on foot this time (no bike) as was needing a long day walking to get fit for doing the West Highland Way in may and a good 20 miler was sure to do the trick.The trip to Derry Lodge took about an hour of easy walking along the landrover track where we met 4 mountain rescue landrovers looks like they were on a training excercise.
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
but we were greeted at the top by what can only be described as ferocious wind so we didnt hang around for to long. Now we had a long trip back to the car we thought maybe 2 hours from here haha it was more like 3.5 hours but very enjoyable along a great path not to steep and the sun was out the whole time apart from a 5 minute squally shower. 9 hours after leavin the car we arrived back at the car totally spent my legs felt like lead but all worth it on another amazing day in the Cairngorms
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
but we were greeted at the top by what can only be described as ferocious wind so we didnt hang around for to long. Now we had a long trip back to the car we thought maybe 2 hours from here haha it was more like 3.5 hours but very enjoyable along a great path not to steep and the sun was out the whole time apart from a 5 minute squally shower. 9 hours after leavin the car we arrived back at the car totally spent my legs felt like lead but all worth it on another amazing day in the Cairngorms- Looking doown Glen Lui
- Cornice looking over Glen Derry
- Panoramic Ben Macdui and Derry Cairngorm
- Cairn Toul and Ben Macdui
- Bein Mheadhoitn from Derry Cairgorm
- Ben Macdui and Cairn Toul
- Panoramic from Derry Cairngorm
- Ben Macdui
- Loch Etchachan pano
- Loch Etchachan 2
- Loch Etchachan 3
- Tors
- spot the dog
- Pano of Derry Cairngorm Ben Macdui and Loch Etchachan
