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Two from Glen Uig

Two from Glen Uig


Postby Johnny Corbett » Fri Dec 21, 2012 1:09 pm

Route description: Cat Law and Corwharn, Glen Isla

Fionas included on this walk: Cat Law

Sub 2000' hills included on this walk: Corwharn

Date walked: 18/12/2012

Time taken: 5 hours

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Decided to do these two from Glen Uig and as with a lot of walks parking can be a problem. This was a small problem as the single track road ended at West Lednathie, we passed no parking spaces. We turned round and just at the lane for the Cottage there was a space on the rocky, grassy ground. Alan saw me back to avoid the rocks and we were soon parked up and ready for the off. At the farm there is a waymarked sign fot Cat Law. We took a left once through the farm and headed up to the right of Peat Shank and then up towards Cat Law. On the summit it i wasn't quite sure of what direction it was with all the rolling hills around us but a quick look at the mapand compass had us heading the right way. Only thing was i forgot to take any summit photos, with checking the map but trust me the views were good. From Cat Law we firstly made our way to Monthrey, then Cormaud and finally over Tarapetmile before taking the path up to Corwharn. We headed directly off the summit to pick the track up in Glen Uig back to the car. It was a nice walk this and the walk out Glen Uig was very pleasant.

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Cat Law from the start

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Our parking spot

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Lednathie

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Ben Tirran

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On our way up

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Large sheltered cairn

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Cairns on Cat Law, not quite the summit

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Cat Law trig

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Corwharn

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Corwharn

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Mayar & Driesh

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Glen Uig

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Cat Law

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Large cairn on Corwharn, again not the summit

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Glen Uig
Last edited by Johnny Corbett on Tue Dec 25, 2012 4:50 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: Two from Glen Uig

Postby malky_c » Fri Dec 21, 2012 1:36 pm

Nice one - looked at doing this circuit before, but have somehow ended up doing these hills separately.
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Re: Two from Glen Uig

Postby rockhopper » Fri Dec 21, 2012 11:53 pm

Good day for it Johnny - I see you're still packing them in having also just read your Dungavel report as well - will you be taking a break for Christmas or just walking through it ? :wink: - cheers :)
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Re: Two from Glen Uig

Postby ChrisW » Sat Dec 22, 2012 6:10 am

Nice little parking spot there :wink: Those hills look beautiful in your pics just rolling on forever toward the horizon, almost autumnal looking too with little snow about, lovely stuff JC. :clap:
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year mate :wink:
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Re: Two from Glen Uig

Postby Johnny Corbett » Sat Dec 22, 2012 9:53 pm

malky_c wrote:Nice one - looked at doing this circuit before, but have somehow ended up doing these hills separately.
I allmost did the same till i spotted the route from the north :D
rockhopper wrote:Good day for it Johnny - I see you're still packing them in having also just read your Dungavel report as well - will you be taking a break for Christmas or just walking through it ? :wink: - cheers :)
Thanks, a break i think, gonna be busy as have to work during the festive period :(
ChrisW wrote:Nice little parking spot there :wink: Those hills look beautiful in your pics just rolling on forever toward the horizon, almost autumnal looking too with little snow about, lovely stuff JC. :clap:
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year mate :wink:
Thanks Chris and same to you :D
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