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To round off a weekend of cider and walking I started this walk at an unusually late time of the day for me. 1000hrs I was in the car parking area at the Garva Bridge, along with a couple of lads from Glasgow whom I tagged along with for a couple of kms.
Between us we made a poor initial route choice and set off up the western side of the stream, only do this if one of your aims is to get soaking feet for the duration of the walk. Aim achieved with some laughs to set me up for the day!
Here are a couple of photos I took on the way back to the motor showing the correct track to take with a structure of some kind used to cross such obstacles. I googled it and it comes up as a "bridge"!
Anyway after a quick rest stop with the Glasgow crew and a Mars bar I looked at my phone on the O2 network and to my horror there was no signal. Bearing in mind my wife is still 39 weeks pregnant and could recall me at any time I told the lads I had to shoot on to get a reception or my head could be on the block. Cheerio!
Following the stream is a relatively easy route towards the base of the hill, however the path is pretty hard to identify in places and with the deep snow was pretty hard going.
Looking back I could see gloomy looking clouds hanging around, safe in the knowledge it would brighten up around midday it was all good.
Arrived at the base of this mound for around 11.40 I knew the task in hand.
I reached the top 40 minutes later and the weather had closed in so went on a compass bearing to find the cairn.
Over to the east you can just make out the corrie between Geal Charn and Beinn Sgiath.
There she was, the cairn I was looking for (and I had a phone signal).
Time for a photo and a sandwich then a u-turn and descent.
Although the weather wasn't ideal I could imagine during pockets of sun and visibility that this hill was one for great views if climbed on the right day, hopefully when I return with caberfeidh munro baggers it will be.
True to form when I got far enough away from the summit the sun shone on it for my Glaswegian friends, never mind!
It was one of these descents that required you to watch almost every foot placement due to the undulating ground. I did however pick up the track on occasion.
The start and finish.
