Glen Lyon Hills

Date: 29/12/1997
Height: 1380m
Distance: 10 miles
Grid: NN63505010 (Carn Gorm), NN64605170 (Meall Garbh), NN68405130 (Carn Mairg), NN69504960 (Creag Mhor)
Companions: None
Weather: Very good; clear, cold with hazy sun.
“Stalking in Progress” sign posted – ignored.
Followed the route outlined in "The Munros"
– went slightly off route, to the wrong side of the Invervar Burn.
There was snow on the ground from about 600-700m, but no need for crampons.
Reached the summit of Carn Gorm and then headed on to Meall Garbh.
From Carn Gorm followed the route to the summit of Meall Garbh, but missed out on the top of “An Sgorr”.
From here I headed on to Carn Mairg.
From Meall Garbh the route was quite a slog up to the summit (over two tops).
Descended incorrectly SW from the South summit.
The weather began to deteriorate as I headed on to Creag Mhor.
By the time I had reach the bealach between Carn Mairg and Creag Mhor the weather was quite bad. I left my rucksack at this midway point and headed on up to Creag Mhor. I then returned to my rucksack over the other ‘top’ and started to descend.
The last 30 minutes or so was in darkness and required a head torch.
An excellent day all in all.

Ben Lawers Group

Date: 21/02/1998
Height:
Distance: 10 miles
Grid: NN62604040 (Beinn Ghlas), NN63604140 (Ben Lawers), NN67404380 (Meall Greigh), NN64404370 (Meall Garbh), NN64404370 (An Stuc)
Companions: Dougie
Weather: Quite misty and clouds, wind on the higher ground.

From the car park at Ben Lawers National Trust Site we followed a very distinctive path over numerous false summits to the top.

From the summit we headed on to Ben Lawers still following the distinctive path (although we lost this slightly for 200m and ended up scrambling down the wrong side of a little crag). After reaching the summit of Ben Lawers we headed on to An Stuc

Continuing on to An Stuc the weather started clearing up a little. From this summit (which had recently just ‘become’ a Munro) we descended its *very* steep crag and began the long laborious climb to the summit of Meall Greigh.

Continuing on from Meall Greigh it was quite a long trek to criss-crossed a newly installed fence, all the way to the summit.

From this final summit we descended back down to Lawers and to our car which we had left at the Lawers Hotel car park – the landlord was pretty annoyed when we didn’t go in for a drink after leaving our car there all day which we would have, had he not come out shouting all confrontationally.

An excellent outing.