Mount Blair with wee bit snow

[ColinBrough]

Caught a wonderful, brief gap in the weather, and was looking for a walk I could do in a morning from Dundee.... Sat Nav took me up the back road via Kilry, rather than up Glen Isla - little more snowy/icy than I'd expected! Made it to the starting point without incident. Snow on the ground, with the longer tufts of grass showing through. Sunshine evident on the hills around - but since most of the walk is on the north side of Mount Blair, was in the shadow till a good way up. Hoping to get into the sunshine was a good spur on as I plodded up with hill.

Looking back towards the road and car (at the edge of the trees)

The path up was reasonably easy to find - though I did lose it for a few hundred yards just below the fence/gate, but it was easy enough to follow the fence to the gate to regain my bearings. Above the gate the path was plain - no human footsteps ahead of me in the snow, but plenty of mountain hare tracks. Sadly didn't see any hares.

Transmitter mast coming into view, and into the sunshine!

Getting into the sunshine 2/3 of the way up was a joy, and had a great if fairly short pause at the summit - the sunshine was almost warm! Very little wind, so a thoroughly pleasant day with absolutely stunning views...

Looking north up Glen Shee

New viewpoint with snow on it... looking towards Glen Shee

Looking south towards Dundee/Perth

Summit cairn in the snow

Even the transmitter mast looks OK in the snow!

Descent was straightforward - a little muddy/slippy under the snow, so had to watch my footing on the way down. And didn't see anyone till I was back at the car and saw someone else clearly about to set out - not sure whether they were doing the same route, or tackling something else. Fab morning....

[anne mariecb]

Hey

That was probably me that you saw heading to do exactly what you had just completed, i did not see you though.

When i was heading up i thought how great it was that someone must have already been up it in the morning as i got to follow your footsteps, (great no navigation needed lol). So thanks for that made it a nice simple route up and i could see the more slippery bits coming back down then also.

I luckily got quite a bit of the sun, it must have made an appearance as you were finishing.

Great hill for in the snow, the views were fab.

[ColinBrough]

Glad to be of help!! You were by your car (taking selfies?) before setting off, it looked like - I was just driving away...

[anne mariecb]

I do remember now a car going by as i was taking photos and getting sorted out to leave.
Yeh me taking selfies lol, terrible for it.
I take videos as well before i set off and during the walk as it makes for good memories.
You can never have too many photos or videos

[grumpy old bagger]

Beautiful photos!
What a lovely country we live in. You had a cracking day for it!