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Too many sad events over Christmas and New Year stopped me getting out on the hills and I felt as though I had lost my mojo!
As I had a few days annual leave to use before the end of March I decided to take one day off and get a hill fix.
I fancied something not too far away and checked to see if anyone else was free. Johnny Corbett was too busy concentrating on the sub 2000s and Dooterbang had a gas engineer visiting but when he seen the weather window rescheduled this and joined me.
Doots checked my WH Corbett map and the weather and decided on Ben Tirran
I picked him up at 7am and was bang on time for a change - I must have been excited _- and we headed towards Glen Clova. Getting stuck in lots of traffic at Cumbernauld and Perth seen us beginning the walk at 1030am
Parked at the public car park/ toilets opposite the hotel. Crossed the road and headed up the right hand side of the hotel, passing some chalets, then over a bridge, through the gate and followed the path onto the open countryside.
We followed the path north and headed up the ridge with views to our east of Loch Brandy. Here the Loch looked stunning, stopping for lots of pictures on route
We continued up the ridge with me puffing a bit due to my first hill in 2 months. We stopped at the top of the Loch for more pictures and then sat for lunch with one of the best views/ lunch stops I’ve seen recently on the hills. With also some cracking views over towards Lochnagar from here.
- First view of Loch Brandy
- Heading up the ridge with Loch Brandy to the east
- At the north end of Loch Brandy
- Loch Brandy
Not wanting to move we eventually continued south east towards green hill and followed a path towards White Hill and south towards the Goet where we refuelled again. The walk up towards the Goet was up and down with softish snow underfoot but nothing too difficult. We kept to the right hand side of the fence all the way up towards the Goet
- Hurry up Doots. Kidding on his knees sore. Towards the Goet
- The Goet
From the Goet it was an easy walk south west towards the summit of Ben Tirran.
- Summit of Ben Tirran
- Summit
From the summit we headed southwest towards Loch Wharral, stopping again for some pics and from here over boggy ground and an electric fence! And continued west towards the forest/ chalets near to the hotel.
- Loch Wharral
- Hut at Loch Wharral
- This is how its done Doots !
- Lagging behind! Its not that hot DB
A truly fantastic hill in winter, which I totally did not expect. 5 hours in total which included lots of picture stops.
Cheers for the company Dooterbang and for helping me get back out and getting my mojo back.