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The forecast was for rain in the morning hopefully clearing to leave better weather in the afternoon but probably with the top in clag and that's exactly the way the day panned out..
Arriving at Glen Lochay for 12.30 the rain more or less stopped as I parked the car so a promising start.
Parking 50 yards beyond the start of the walk I headed back and through the gate in to the field beside the road. I then followed a good track over to the right of the field where I passed through another gate in to a larger second field where the track started to climb. Following the track until it turned to a faint grassy track it was just a case of following it to the top of the hill where a locked gate can be seen with a stile over the wall about 20 yards to the right of it.
Once over the stile I followed an obvious track uphill with a couple of zig zags before reaching a small cairn to the left of the track (there is also a large pole about 40 yards off the track).
- Looking back
Leaving the main track at the cairn the trudge begins. The track climbs the wide south east ridge and with the tops all shrouded in cloud there wasn't much to see other than the climb ahead. The track is a bit damp in places but not too bad. Probably due to the weather it was just a case of head down, engage my trudge gear and head upwards.
- Looking back from the south east shoulder of MG
After a while the last large climb comes in to view (or at least the lower part of it does with the top completely in cloud).
- Clag time approaching
- Looking down to Glen Lochay
Although the gradient increases on the last climb it's now drier underfoot and it doesn't take long to reach the top. The climb from the car to the summit took just under 2hrs.
- Clag summit
Half way down I caught my first glimpse of blue skies to the west and for a brief couple of minutes the sun came out.
- Looking west up Glen Lochay
- Looking east up Glen Lochay
- The tops clearing
- Sunshine and dark clouds
- Looking west again
Not my best day out on the hills this year but better than sitting in the house.
Total time was 3hrs 20 mins with 3hrs on the move and 20 minutes having breathers. Might have to go back to this hill on a better day.