
The arrangement was to meet in Invervar at 9am, which is a nice leisurely start for me, but Rachel was driving down from Aberdeen just a mere 3 hours

I have already done the Glen Lyon Munro's but as it was 15 years ago I thought yeah why not and to be honest I don't really remember much about the walk apart from it being a long day (9hrs) mainly because the guy I walked with wasn't exactly quick


I set off from Fife at 7am as the AA routemaster reckons it takes just under 2 hrs to reach Aberfeldy, as it happened I was in the car at 8.30 so was able to get ready at a nice leisurely pace, whilst I waited for Rachel. Whilst waiting a chap in a humungous Fiat motor home arrived & asked where does one park for the Glen Lyon hills so I advised him & asked him if he wanted to join us, once Rachel arrived

On Rachel's arrival we introduced ourselves & Derek joined us

The walk/navigation didn't get off to the best start, we walked across the road from the car park right next to the phone box, only to be advised by a local resident we were heading the wrong way

So back to the road and into Invervar, which consists of a couple of properties before turning right and through the gate. The uphill walking then began, Derek was in full flow (verbally) Rachel and I had our listening hats on and we soon reached the top edge of the forest.
We stopped for a quick drink, route check and to catch our breath as we had set off like mountain goats

For some reason we decided to head north up rather steep grassy slopes as we thought the first hill was directly ahead of us


We could see Carn Gorm in the distance and the ridge that we should have gone up, so we had to come up with plan B and how we were going to get back on track

We decided to traverse across the higher slopes of Meall Luaidhe and head to the bealach between Meall Garbh and An Sgorr, that way we wouldn't lose any or much of the height we had struggled to gain

Our detour had also added an extra hour onto our planned schedule, when we reached the bealach we had a pit stop as we were all a bit peckish

As we neared the summit of Carn Gorm we met Ann (hi Ann) who is a lurker on WH (and doesn't even know her user name) who was on her way down. Ann gave us a target to catch up, which we duly did just after the next summit



The walk from Carn Gorm to Creag Mhor was easy and uneventful, Derek wasn't in a hurry so he decided to have a long lunch & tag along with Ann for the rest of the day. Rachel then turned on the overdrive and I had to almost run to keep up with her


Now for the descent, (Error number 3), we started off following the path and all was well, then as usual it either disappeared or we lost it



We had a good scan over the surrounding terrain and were unable to see any trace of a path, so we just romped down the ridge over heather, grass and the occasional rock or two

We could see where we wanted to be so we just put our heads down and went for it and just to the east of Rionn na Creige summit where what looked like a path

We were quite pleased with ourselves having located a path, however (Error number 4) this path was leading us in completely the wrong direction, but we persisted with it in case it started to head west, which it didn't

The path/track took us nearly 2 miles east of where we should of ended up, after clambering over 3 fences, struggling through 2 gates, scaring umpteen deer, we eventually reached the road

All we had to do now was head west along the road back to the car park on nice firm terra firma

Great day out in ideal walking conditions and great company, not sure I will return, they are 4 easy Munro's but certainly not memorable for the right reasons

