The Glen Lyon Horseshoe

[jonny616]

Left Glasgow at 06:30 raining & cloudy, similar most of the way up to Glen Lyon with a sneaky peaky sun every now & then, just enough to give hope.

Left the car just after 9am in the small parking area behind the telephone box. Place was jumping with hill folk.

Did the walk as discribed on this great website. The weather was dry, misty, cloudy, clear sunny & warm.

First target Carn Gorm

Still a fair amount of snow about, but annoyingly slippy underfoot.

Still a fair amount of snow

My three friends & I realy enjoyed this walk & the weather was very kind to us.

If you are planning to do this round clockwise, just watch out leaving the summit of Carn Mairg as we had to come accross a boulder field, only to look back later & see a boulder free decent route. We droped right from the cairn, when we should have carried on straight ahead for a short distance before droping right.

Lawers from Carn Gorm

Summit Carn Gorm

Way ahead to Meall Garbh

Summit Meall Garbh

Ahead to Carn Mairg

Carn Mairg with Schiehallion in the back ground

Creag Mhor from Carn Mairg

Schiehallion

Looking back to Carn Mairg

Creag Mhor, four in the bag

View back to Carn Gorm from Creag Mhor

We had used Naismiths rule to calculate 8 hours with no stops, so it was pretty accurate