Matt Renshaw - 167721

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Winter Walking Record

Details

Date : 10/12/2017

Duration : 2-3 hours

Style : Equals

Type : Quality Mountain Day (QMD)

Weather : Clear - sunny - good visibility

Wind : No wind

Camping Type : N/A

Nights Camping : 0

Mountains : Beinn a'Ghlo - Braigh Coire Chruinn-bhalgain Beinn a'Ghlo - Carn Liath Beinn a'Ghlo - Carn nan Gabhar Carn nan Gabhar (Beinn a'Ghlo) - Airgiod Bheinn

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Description

Fantastic winter round of 3 big hills on the Beinn a Ghlo range. We had seen these the previous day from Glen Tilt and climbed the Northern Munros. Good contrast to the previous day - very little map work needed as the day was bell clear and -7 in the glen.
Set off 0830 in dawn light, up estate road and then onto the steep slopes of the hill. From the summit, a long drop to a 650 col then back up to the centre of the range. Excellent going on frozen terrain and a good snow covering.
Excellent stalkers path in the glen from the bottom of the shoulder from Airgiog Beinn - but not marked on 1:50 map.
A great day in the highlands - warned by a local walker to not romanticise about the trip back home for fear of crowds descending on the area! "Tell them it was mingin`" was his suggestion.

Area : Pitlochry to Braemar & Blairgowrie (Beinn a'Ghlo)

Glen Tilt and the River Dee are the natural boundaries to this area whose eastern edge is the A924/A93 road from Pitlochry to Braemar. Eleven Munros and a large number of other peaks above 600m are in the mountains list, with the tallest being Carn nan Gabhar at 1121m, part of the Beinn a’Ghlo massif. This area is the western Peaks to the west of Glen Tilt are listed in the Glen Tromie to Glen Tilt area.

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