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A lovely snowy day today here in Grantown so headed up a wee hill on my back door that I'd not yet done. I parked at the end of the Glen Beg road before heading over the bridge and up the track to the farm.
We passed through the farm yard and took the first left fork in the track up the hill and through the woods, the track soon split again and again I went left following the contour of the hill before it turned uphill again. Lots of pheasants, pigeons and woodcock in the wood so Flynn was a happy spaniel! Soon we emerged out of the woods to see the summit.
We picked up a rough path through the frozen heather pretty much directly towards the summit, a few grouse about on the hill.
We soon reached the summit - a trig point - with views over the cromdales, cairngorms, grantown and the wilderness towards the north. By this point poor Flynn was gathering significant snow balls on his chest and leg feathers - I kept trying to breakthem down but it just seemed to speed up their build up! He was still snowballed up several hours after coming home. We headed back the same way we came up with thoughts of soup, sausage rolls and ski sunday! I also decided to come back here when theres a bit more snow and sledge all the way home - should be awsome!
