by Fairweather Softie » Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:57 pm
Date walked: 11/04/2010
Time taken: 7 hours
Distance: 14 km
Ascent: 933m
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Fantastic day and needed to hide from the world for a day so took to the hills for the first time in 5 months, as my name suggests the white stuff is not for me. I tried this the last time I was out in November and ended up in a hole waist deep in mud and gave up just before the Lochan.
The drive to the drovers was undescribable, I nearly crashed twice looking across the loch, arrived at about 08:45 and was out the car and walking across the A82 5 minutes later. Parked across from Drovers was not sure if you can park in the Ben Glass farm.
No time to warm the legs up, your right into hill so started up the steep climb up across the 2 derr fences and onto the moor, it was not as wet underfoot as the last time so had a easy walk across the moor. Missed the turn off to the left and ended up seeing the Lochan. I would have hated to have walked the 7 or 8 km in the bog from the last time.
From Lochan Beinn Chabhair I headed up besie a small burn, no snow and still not bad underfoot, got up and found the path as described on this site. Think I should have headed up sooner as the route description on here says I should not have seen the Lochan. Glorious views from the top but as is the norm with me I forgot camera and it might be added a HAT, a baldy man and sunny weather does not go hand in hand. I ended up wearing a top on my head like something out of Laurence of Arabia. i took a couple of pictures on my blackberry but they are poor.
Getting down was via same route I was talking to a guy at the top who intended to head down SE he thought a path going in that direction would come back on itself.