by Handknittedbagger » Thu Oct 09, 2014 9:22 pm
Munros included on this walk: Meall Greigh
Date walked: 09/10/2014
Time taken: 3.5 hours
Distance: 9.8 km
Ascent: 1000m
1 person thinks this report is great. Register or Login free to be able to rate and comment on reports (as well as access 1:25000 mapping).
Initially set out to climb the "Glen Lyon 4", however after parking and getting set in the car park at Invervar with Susan and our dog, Bo, an arrogant and ignorant fellow pulled up in a Range Rover to inform us the he had 'men on the hill' deer stalking and we would not be able to climb. He advised that there were plenty of other hills to climb such as Ben Lawers and Schiehallion. Unsure of our rights in relation to climbing the hill anyway, we gave in to him and decided to go back down to the Ben Lawers Hotel and climb the three Munros, we had failed to conquer whilst climbing Ben Lawers a few weeks ago.
The drive back down meant that we set out a lot later then we would usually do, however, the weather was ok although it was obvious that all the summits were in cloud and the views were going to be restricted.
We were using Viewranger, as always, with a route purchased from Walkhighlands, however, although were were able to follow the route using the GPS the path disappeared not long into the route and we found ourselves climbing across grassed slopes and merely heading towards the top, with no path visible.
We both found the climb boring and hard and it took us longer than we would usually take to summit a mountain of this size. Once on the summit, we could see little and the route to the next summit looked long and hard and as a result we decided to settle for the one summit and the one Munro and set of back down the mountain.
It s another one crossed off the list, but would not return to this hill and will summit the other two in the group another day, over the Ben Lawers route.