round coire ardrain, stob garbh and...

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Need a couple of days free to get away and explore somewhere new, hopefully soon. With one day free, this is a route I've done before and a hill I've been up many times.
This is a good horseshoe from the station at crianlarich, for all you baggers out there it goes over the munro top stob garbh(does anyone still do these?) as well as cruach ardrain and ben tulaichean - if you want. Its simple, take the forestry track over allt coire ardrain-walk up alongside end of forestry to point 752 (harvey's map)-step up some grassy humps to stob garbh-weave down through craigs,lochans to bealach-steep pull up to cruach ardain-down over meall dhamh, grey height back to forestry track and station. Just a couple of words of caution, in the mist take care weaving down through craigs from stob garbh lots of dead ends, also the path from bealach up to cruach ardrain is quite steep not really the place for anybody inexperienced if its covered in snow.
The clag was down all day for me. Whenever the hills are like this I think of syd scroggie and the enjoyment he got from memory, sound, just the feeling of being out on the hill despite having been blinded in the war- stops me complaining. Anyway had hill to myself(well me & ptarmigan) all day apart from summit of cruach ardain where I met a lone munro bagger and then party of 4 arrived just as I was leaving-they had all come up from inverlochlarig.
here are some admittedly not very good pictures not sure they are in the right order afraid i am a techno feartie

way up

nondescript top of top stob garbh

lots lochans on way down

dead end

ptarmigan

end path to cruach ardrain summit

nothing to see

cloud covered horseshoe

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and forgot I had a bonus walk at the end along river fillan- here's picture of the railway bridge in the gloaming