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Beinn i'Gloo

Munros: Bràigh Coire Chruinn-bhalgain, Càrn Liath (Beinn a' Ghlò)

Date walked: 04/03/2024

Time taken: 7 hours

Distance: 18.5km

Ascent: 1025m

I normally go on to Beinn a;Ghlo from Glen Tilt but this time Gordon picked me up at Birnam Station and we went up to the new car park. It seemed an improvement. So did the new stepping stones across the flat before Carn Liath.
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Not the only construction on the hill, because at the summit was an igloo. You don't often think "That's a first!" on a Scottish hill.
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That was the only time visibility failed, but the wind was to cut you in two.
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We put on crampons to go down to the Bealach an Fhiodha but didn't need them.
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We then decided to skip Can nan Gabhar. The way down the glen is a morass, and we were thinking wistfully of descending by Airgiod Bheinn. We finally got on to the new motorway which was welcome. The sole of Gordon's boot then split, for six inches back from the toe.
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He strapped it up and walked in a peculiar manner. I took this shot to remind me how far he'd come, in one of the restrapping stops.
Cracking day, and I was dropped at the Atholl Arms with time for a pint before my train.

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2024

Trips: 1
Distance: 18.5 km
Ascent: 1025m
Munros: 2

2023

Trips: 2
Distance: 34 km
Ascent: 1320m
Hewitts: 3

2022

Trips: 1
Distance: 18 km
Ascent: 710m
Hewitts: 1

2021

Trips: 2
Distance: 26.2 km
Ascent: 1445m
Munros: 1
Fionas: 1

2020

Trips: 2
Distance: 18 km
Ascent: 720m
Sub2000s: 2

2019

Trips: 6
Distance: 97.5 km
Ascent: 5810m
Munros: 5
Corbetts: 1
Fionas: 3

2018

Trips: 5
Distance: 86 km
Ascent: 6070m
Munros: 8
Corbetts: 1
Sub2000s: 1

2017

Trips: 4
Distance: 51 km
Ascent: 3840m
Munros: 3
Fionas: 1
Sub2000s: 3

2016

Trips: 9
Distance: 159 km
Ascent: 9860m
Munros: 7
Corbetts: 1
Sub2000s: 3

2015

Trips: 4
Distance: 74 km
Ascent: 4690m
Munros: 8
Fionas: 2
Donalds: 2

2014

Trips: 2
Distance: 34 km
Ascent: 2100m
Munros: 2
Sub2000s: 2

2013

Trips: 2
Distance: 43 km
Ascent: 2600m
Munros: 3

2012

Trips: 2
Distance: 44 km
Ascent: 2500m
Munros: 4

2011

Trips: 3
Distance: 71 km
Ascent: 3500m
Munros: 5
Fionas: 1


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