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I had a meeting arranged for 12.00 noon in Kirkcaldy and another the following morning in Motherwell. Quickly began to realise that, weather dependent, another opportunity was being presented to climb another Hill. A quick look at the map and I decided that if I booked a hotel in Stirling, this would be an ideal base to drive up to the Ben Lawers car park and tackle Meall Nam Tarmachan. Having read a few reports, I was confident I coud do this within 3 hours.
Set off from Lincolnshire at 5.00am and arrived in Kirkcaldy bang on 12.00 for my meeting. This concluded at 2.30 and I checked in at Hotel at 3.30, got changed and set off towards Killin at 3.45. Weather was sunny, with a few showers about, but as I drove over the top near Glen Ogle to descend down towards Killin, I could see all the Lawers Hills bathed in sunshine. As this was to be my first solo munro, this was just what I needed.
Parked up at and was on my way at 5.00pm. The route up was great, a good path, steady gradient and a nice steep bit just before the summit. It took me exactly one hour to reach the summit. It was freezing on top. I toyed with the idea of walking the ridge to Meall Garbh, but with dirty looking rain clouds all round, I decided that having achieved my goal, I should bail out and enjoy the walk down. Decision was the right one as ten minutes later having descended the steep section, the tops were engulfed in cloud.
I arrived back at the car at 7.00pm, two hours after setting off feeling pretty chuffed with myself
A few pictures from a memorable two hours