Where - Meall a'Mhuic, 745m/2,444', Graham, Map 51, NN 579508
Participants - Neil and Ben
The weather forecast for the rest of the week was dire so it was today or not at all if I wanted a walk this week. I climbed Meall a'Mhuic a couple of years ago and enjoyed it and as far as I could remember there were no fences to cross or sheep to worry about so Ben would be able to run about freely. The Meggernie Estate seem to be particularly walker friendly and have provided a good car park with picnic benches and toilet facilities at Innerwick in Glen Lyon, the start of the walk. Here is a view of the hill that I took from close to the car park last time that I was here; all the other photographs were taken today.....
There are a lot of tracks hereabouts including an old one that zig zags up the hill to about the 530m height so its easy going. Just about where the track ends there are faint traces of some old shielings; this one certainly had a view! The jaggy ridge in the distance is Meall nam Tarmachan.....
There was a lot of short cropped heather higher up and it was really only a gradual slope and the cairn soon came into view. Here's an unusual picture- Ben not moving! The Alder group of hills are in the background.....
Looking further round to the east I could make out the hills at Drumochter with Loch Rannoch closer at hand.....
Schiehallion is always visible from around here.....
and the Corbett of Beinn Dearg and the Munro of Carn Gorm, the most westerly of the 4 Munros on the north side of Glen Lyon, were quite close. However, what you can't see is the glen of the Lairig Ghallabhaich between the hill that we were on and Beinn Dearg and as my days of belting on to get as many ticks in a day as possible are now over- I'm older and wiser as well as being more decrepit- I didn't bother......
This must be one of the few hills from where you can see all 7 Munros of the Lawers group.....
So after a rest at the cairn it was back the same way with the pleasant knowledge that there is an excellent tea room just a mile into the journey home. I couldn't resist.
2 comments:
Another vote for the Bridge of Balgie tearoom..!
I missed this one out when doing Beinn Dearg next door many years ago.
Was out in Galloway the same day up and along the Rig of the Jarkness to Craiglee.Glad I wasn`t out today :)
After a good walk, to be able to sit at a table outside the Glen Lyon tearoom with a pot of tea and a cream cake and look across to the Lawers hills is indeed very civilised! Might well tempt me to go back and do Beinn Dearg again, and Cam Chreag also looks interesting from that direction.
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