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Left Glasgow bright & sparky under clear skies for the wet clag of Glenshee.
Group asembled & on the hill for 9:45 & at 10:15 find ourselves at the top of our first munro of the day!
- Pano from ascent of Carn Aosda
- Summit Carn Aosda with view
Followed the route on this great site & as it says steep ascent. Meet a couple of guys at the top who kindly took a group shot Before we did same for them headed of to Carn a Gheoidh. Once off the main Aosda/Cairwell ridge this is the most pleasent part of the walk & thats without any views as there was no let up in the clag. You can either follow the track towards the cairnwell & turn of at the crest of the ridge or take a path about 200 meters earlier, which is a bit boggy but means you are not totaly retracing your steps later on. We took the boggy path.
- From Aosda towards Carn a Gheoidh
11:45 summit number two.
- Carn a Gheoidh (self portrait with view)
On the way to The Cairnwell managed to lose the path, which is no mean feet when you see it & a quick baring took us back. 13:15 third summit of the day, which felt strange with all the ski & phone stuff.
- The Cairwell Summit with view
The notes say no path down pick a spot & aim for the buildings. Looked down at one point just to the left of the chair lift way too steep so went a bit further & then straight down at the car inb 20 mins. Then Haha soup & magners in the cafe.
All in all 3 hours 50mins including stops etc. A nice easy walk if you ignor the ski stuff with no doubt great views in fine weather. If you take hill hobbits with you a great oppertunity for them to bag three munros & i will soon be back with mine.
A quick note on irony, this is the first munro in 65 that i could not get a mobile signal on
- Madmax world of The Cairnwell