Wild Cat Country, Cruban Beag with surprise Blue Skies

[The Rodmiester]

This was to be the clubs March Meet and we were to be heading to The Roundhouse Bunkhouse on the Laggon to Newtonmore Road, so after stopping off at Dalwhinnie to pick up a bottle of 15year old Malt Whisky, sitting through a storm of wet sleet whilst eating my lunch in the Distillery Carpark, and hoping the weather would improve slightly to allow me to pick off this little sub 2000er Cruan Beag on the Glentruim Road. After turning right at Catlodge and travelled approx 2k until I found a space to park the car next to a couple of gates and quite near an elecricity pylon, after another wee wait until the weather dried up a bit it was time put on the gear, I was not going to hang about as the forecast was not good so decided to travel light.

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Roadside parking with Cuban Beag in the distance. After climbing the gate I crossed the rather wet muddy field which had the evidence of cows having grazed there upon, but there were none today.

After crossing the lower field I was heading for another gate to cross at the South East corner in the direction of the hill to be climbed

Looking back North East at tomorrows climb Creag Dhubh a Graham at 756m

Rough going with no sign of much way of a track or path, view looking West at Creag Sanais 530m

Traversing the North East shoulder of Creag Sanais you have to drop slightly to cross the burn and also pass through some trees, find a suitable crossing place and also head towards the simplest way through the trees, which should not cause any problems, step carefully as this section is quite wet and boggy. Mind you if you did as I did cross the burn at some very sloppy stones you will fall and hurt yourself!

Looking back at the flooding in the gen and another look at tomorrow hill Creag Dhubh

After climbing further you will come across a fence on your left which appears to head in the direction of the summit but later on it turns at right angle and you are forced to climb over at a suitable spot as there are no gates

First sign of the summit trig point

View towards tomorrows climb from the trig point

Tonights resting and meeting place at The Roundhouse Bunkhouse at Uvie Farm, which turned out to be an excellent venue at a good price

Heading on back to the car, and not a single drop of rain or snow, can it keep up for the rest of the weekend though?