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- The main Lochearnhead car park where there are also toilets and solar panel litter bins, well that's a new one, hope they are well used. We were greeted by a local who was wanting some breakfast
- I had a written copy of Mountain Thyme's excellent walk report in my pocket as quite a few trip reports had suggested finding the start and following the many paths at the West end of the loch was somewhat confusing, with some bridges to go over and some below. Pictute shows us heading West along the main road out of Lochearnhead
- After turning left at the A85 and walking past the local paper shop not the friendliest we turned right up past the church
- Reaching the cycleway we double backed at this sign and took the Killin Kenmore direction under the bridge and followed the route climbing steadily on a good surface
- Climbing steadily up with views over the Loch to our right, after some zig zags and with the path getting steeper we turned off the path to take the old railway track on our left
- Old railway track now a fine level walk past a couple of gates
- The railway bridge you do not go under but take the wooden gate on your left and go up over the bridge to reach the good track going up Glen Kendrum
- Heading off up the Glen with the glag well down
- Burn crossing which would usually be a piece of cake but with the snow melt over the past couple of days was slightly tricky
- Pondering how to tackle the crossing
- First sign of Creag Mac Ra'naich in the distance
- Now to find away past the crags. It would all have been so different if you could see the route in front of you, so it was onwards and upwards trying to find the grassy sections, with the gradient getting steeper and steeper
- Passing some fairly large boulders
- Further up and now in the snow
- Not far and after passing the Southern cairn finding a trace of a path to the Northern cairn the summit at 809m
- Group photo at summit, no views what so ever, getting windy and cold with the detection of rain in the offing
- After getting back to the bealach a lightly different route being taken as the steepness of the climb up was maybe not something that should have been attempted on the return, it was time to decide whether it was worth doing the other Corbett with little or no chance of the weather improving. It was decided just to head on back down the glen track and stop off for a bite to eat and return another day for Meall an t-Seallaidh. On the way done saw this burn in full flow
- Now for the river crossing again where we found it much easier tackling it from this side
- More than one way to cross a river
- Maybe we all needed a pair of these for the river crossings, over the boot wellies, or maybe just black bin bags, but these did have some grip and already made ties at the top, think about it!