
63.5km, 2900m. 16.30 Sun to 10.30 Wed. The Glen Tarf Hills
10.5km, 520m. 16.30 - 19.30.
Blair Athol, via Glen Banvie to Allt Scheicheachan Bothy. Easy walk along tracks, with the last hour by head torch. Bothy in good condition but outside marred by excrement and used wet wipes!
18.3km, 1000m. 08.30 - 16.30.
Allt Scheicheachan Bothy, Beinn Dearg, Beinn Gharbh, Elrig 'ic an Toisich, river crossing of Feith an Lochain at GR890778, Aonach na Cloiche Mòire, Carn a' Chlamain north top, Carn a' Chlamain, col south of Meall Tionail, followed Fèith Uaine Mhòr to Tarf Hotel. Stunning location, bothy in excellent condition, chose to use the northern annex with windows looking west, north and east.
24km, 1080m. 08.00 - 18.60.
Tarf Hotel, crossed the Tarf Water and followed it upstream for 1km before heading north and picking out way up Leachdann Fèith Seasgachain to the 883m col south of Carn Ealar where we left the sacs for a short stroll to the summit and back. Picked up the packs and contoured round the south top and descended a snow slope to 710m col before heading up An Sgarsoch, and a bearing or two to Druim Sgarsoich. A bearing took us down to 721m col and the Allt Coire an t-Seilich to confluence GR945855 before we headed straight on heather bashing to reach the Geldie Burn at GR838869. Picked up the Geldie/Feshie path to the Eidart Bridge and a brew before bashing on to GR 866891 were we put up the tent in a lovely spot and settled in to survive a night of sleet and gale force winds.
10.7km, 300m. 06.30 - 10.30.
After little sleep, packed away the tent that had remarkably survived and headed down Glen Feshie to the car park north of Achlean.
A four day trip with James Telfor to complete some remote Munros. Despite James's lack of experience he did really well despite suffering cold nights due to an inadequate sleeping bag - a last minute change I was unaware of! The only other glitch was a failure on the hose of my Primus Omnifuel (after many years of happy use). We did however have a much less used MSR Pocket Rocket that got the job done. James was amazed by the appearance of a pair of Crocs for not only wearing in the bothies but putting on for the river crossing on the Monday. All other crossings were made dry with boots on, including Tarf Water which had dropped overnight due to the cold locking runoff up. We had planned to camp at Geldie Lodge but the thought of slogging out to Glen Feshie head on into strong winds modified the plan. Instead we ade it a long day and got into Glen Feshie for the night where we tried to sleep despite the battering the tent was taking. In the end the precaution of being totally packed for a collapse wasn't needed. Fantastic to see so much natural regeneration in Glen Feshie. Having finished early, James was able to sort out and taxi to pick us up and take us to Rothiemurchus Lodge. a fab trip.
Area :
Glen Tromie to Glen Tilt (Beinn Dearg)
This area includes the mountains in the Cairngorms National Park which lie between Glen Tromie in the west and Glen Tilt in the south of the park. The northern boundary is the River Feshie and to the south, the A9. There are four Munros in the area, the tallest being Beinn Dearg at 1008m, and the area is typically made up of peaty plateaux with the occasional pointy peak.