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Falls of Truim and Sub2000 Crùban Beag from Falls of Truim car park, just off A9, near Etteridge (Newtonmore) with Kids (8, 11 yo)Stats:Total distance - 5.8 km
Total time - 4h39m
Walking time - 1h55m
Altitude gain - 300 m
Terrain:0.6 km - a road
2.7 km - farm tracks
2.5 km - animal paths and pathless, a mix of grass and mostly short heather; shorter heather; grass and bog myrtle, boggy in some places
one low fence and one deer fence to climbCrùban Beag (the picture taken from the Graham
Creag Ruadh (Dalwhinnie) over Glen Truim and the A9):
The hill is usually reached from the NW, but I find the route from the East from Glen Truim, past Truim Falls, more interesting. I think it is possible to take a shorter route to the summit than we did but we wanted to make a circuit to see more cairns.
We parked up on the Falls of Truim car park, just off A9:
The first 1.7 km we followed the WH walk
Falls of Truim and Truim woods.
From the car park we walked a short way along the road towards the A9 and took the turning on the left for Crubenbeg holiday cottages.
We continued on the driveway to Crubenbeg to the bridge over the river Truim.
Falls of Truim from the bridge:
Falls of Truim:
Just behind the bridge, we turned right and continued along the river:
Beyond a very old bench we turned left...:
...walked through the gate then crossed the field and turned right onto a grassy farm track:
We walked around Crubenbeg Steading...:
...and followed the farm track uphill. There were also a few small green arrows (on the gate post):
The northern part of Crùban Beag with cairns in sight:
We left the WH walk at this place and continued uphill pathless towards the cairn on the right side:
The ascent was a bit boggy in some places, appropriately steep
, but I would say easily walkable:
Watching a train to Inverness (the train is in the red circle
):
Heading to the first cairn on our way:
Looking to the North - the Graham Creag Dhubh (Newtonmore) on the left:
Looking to the cairn marked on the OS map (the red line = our way):
The cairn zoomed:
Memorial plaque on the cairn:
From the cairn with the plaque we continued to the aerials...:
...and further to Cairn at Pt. 500 m:
We crossed the fence where the barbed wire was torn.
There is a good path up between the red lines:
The path up:
Cairn on the top of the path mentioned above, Falls of Truim car park (in the middle):
Falls of Truim car park zoomed:
The summit in sight.
From here we followed an animal path (red line) up to the summit:
Conni on the summit - Looking to the North - the Graham Creag Dhubh (Newtonmore) between the trigpillar and the summit cairn:
Conni on the summit - Looking to the SE - the Munro
Meall Chuaich and the Graham
Creag Ruadh (Dalwhinnie) which we completed a few weeks ago:
After a well-deserved break on the summit
we continued from the trigpillar along an animal path to the South towards Crùban Mòr:
The path brought us to the corner of the deer fence where the fence was fallen (the red arrow):
We did not need to climb over it
:
We continued into the space between the two forests marked on the OS map...
(The ground in the area was mostly covered with a mix of grass and bog myrtle
):
...and further alongside the fence down to the farm track:
On the way down alongside the fence we had to climb one deer fence:
Finally down on the farm track leading back to Crubenbeg holiday cottages:
There were a lot of puddles on the farm track (all of them easily avoidable). In one of them we spotted lovely newts
:
Beyond a metal gate in front of a field the farm track changed to a grassy track and continued to Crubenbeg holiday cottages.
Crubenbeg holiday cottages:
Beyond this gate we rejoined the WH walk...:
...and walked back to the car park.
I think Crùban Beag is a really nice Sub2000
.
