Lochnagar and more, from Auchallater, What a day!
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 8:37 pm
Another Argyll Mountaineering Club's weekends landed us in the Braemar area and it was the to be a small but select party to converge to meet in 'The Bothy' a fairly new Coffee shop in Braemar as the Fife Arms Hotel had the decidedly Closed look, maybe it opens at Easter? The Big Three of us discussed, plans A, B, and C and finally a plan of action was hatched over fabulous bacon rolls and coffee. Plan A Two Munros, Plan B three Munros and Plan C Five Munros, no contest really, plan C it was as the MWIS forecast was looking good for Saturday in particular for the whole day. The time now was about 1300hrs and the decided to drive back down A93 to Auchallater also one of the starts of Jock's Road, walk in with big packs to Loch Callater where two were to find accommodation at the MBA Bothy 'The Stables' and I was to pitch my tent overlooking the loch. The walk to Loch Callater took us our heavy packs just over an hour, after pitching the tent and getting our tea at the bothy it was an early night to get us prepared for the Big day ahead (Saturday). One of the group had been struggling with blisters with his 4 season boots so the approach from this side meant that after scaling Lochnagar we could just return and leave Cairn Bannoch and Broad Cairn for another day, if we needed to.