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Ben Mhanach long walk and grass hill

Ben Mhanach long walk and grass hill


Postby Peter913 » Sun Aug 19, 2012 10:39 pm

Route description: Beinn Mhanach

Munros included on this walk: Beinn Mhanach

Date walked: 18/08/2012

Time taken: 7 hours

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Hi

Was out yesterday with Jim again up Ben Mhanach one we have been wanting for a while
Jim picked me up at 0930 then we picked up 2 others it was wet when we left the house so we thought
wet all day

we headed up the a82 when the weather started too clear

At the summit looking down Loch Lyon Jim spotted his favourite mountain An Stuc

Weather was great all day we ended up back to the car for 1800 after a good walk

comments welcome on my images

Peter
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Re: Ben Mhanach long walk and grass hill

Postby basscadet » Sun Aug 19, 2012 10:43 pm

Aye thats a long way to go just for one hill.. I did it a few weeks ago in possibly the heaviest rain I have ever encountered :lol:
beautiful area though, your photos are cracking, I especially like the 2nd one of the Loch.. i think I have a photo of the very same sheeps head too :)
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Re: Ben Mhanach long walk and grass hill

Postby Peter913 » Sun Aug 19, 2012 10:52 pm

basscadet wrote:Aye thats a long way to go just for one hill.. I did it a few weeks ago in possibly the heaviest rain I have ever encountered :lol:
beautiful area though, your photos are cracking, I especially like the 2nd one of the Loch.. i think I have a photo of the very same sheeps head too :)

Many thanks we actually saw a whole sheep in bits decending from the hill it had been eaten by a eagle

Peter
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Re: Ben Mhanach long walk and grass hill

Postby basscadet » Sun Aug 19, 2012 11:02 pm

I camped in a place in the Crianlarich hills once that was littered with eaten sheeps carcasses.. it was creepy :D
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Re: Ben Mhanach long walk and grass hill

Postby mrssanta » Mon Aug 20, 2012 9:18 pm

I think your pics are gorgeous. the light is tremendous.
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Re: Ben Mhanach long walk and grass hill

Postby Alan S » Mon Aug 20, 2012 9:31 pm

mrssanta wrote:I think your pics are gorgeous. the light is tremendous.

Agree,cracking pics 8)
Have put this hill off for too long now I really need to get up there
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Re: Ben Mhanach long walk and grass hill

Postby Fudgie » Tue Aug 21, 2012 10:40 am

The more I read about this hill, the more I'm convinced I'll cycle in.
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Re: Ben Mhanach long walk and grass hill

Postby Graeme D » Tue Aug 21, 2012 12:00 pm

Cracking photos - the third one is the pick of the bunch for me. I'll go in over those two Corbetts when I get round to it! 8)
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Re: Ben Mhanach long walk and grass hill

Postby quoman » Tue Aug 21, 2012 2:08 pm

nice photo's i take it that the river was quite low as you never mentioned it in the report
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Re: Ben Mhanach long walk and grass hill

Postby Peter913 » Tue Aug 21, 2012 4:33 pm

Many thanks for the comments

Yes the water was pretty low and a cycle in would have saved a lot of time

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