A walk in Glen Feshie in the Cairngorm National Park:
Quoted message said:From the car park north of Auchlean we walked past this farm and took
the path towards the wood where we crossed the Allt Fhearnagan and were
confronted by loads of shooters who had the wood surrounded. I am not
sure what they were after, pheasants or foxes but we never heard any
shots. We got permission to proceed but it was like having an armed
escort as we walked towards the bridge over the River Feshie. This
bridge is now in good condition having been repaired and this allowed
the shooters to drive across the bridge and park their vehicles at
various points on the east side of the river.
Once on the opposite side of the river we followed a path south until
it joined the tarred and well maintained road almost as far as
Carnachuin. Here we headed uphill by a vehicle track but once beyond
the forest we left the track and climbed the heather clad hillside onto
the north ridge of Carn Dearg Beag where there was a faint path.
This path was followed to the summit trig point of Carn Dearg Beag.
The early sun had been replaced by cloud and it was windy as we
continued south towards Carn Dearg Mor. This was a reasonably easy
ascent following the faint path through the heather but unfortunately
it was very windy and once again we had a ten minute blast of snow just
before we arrived on the summit of Carn Dearg Mor.
It was too cold and windy to hang about on the open summit so we headed
to the bealach to the south-west and then dropped down to the vehicle
track than runs round the side of Carn Dearg.
We found a reasonably sheltered area beside Lochan an t-Sluic for our
lunch. This lochan has two streams that flow into it and none flowing
out so we presumed that there must be some underground channel for the
water to escape towards the River Feshie.
After lunch we followed the track to the River Feshie and Glenfeshie
Lodge but had to leave the track on numerous occasions to allow the
shooter's vehicles to pass. They must have gone to the south west of
Carn Dearg Mor but once again we never heard any shots. The track
was followed back to Carnachuin and we then returned to our cars by the
outward route.
Photographs can be viewed at:
http://www.caledoniahilltreks.com/galleries/glen_feshie_apr06/index.htm
As usual statistical details can be found at
http://caledoniahilltreks.blogspot.com
Lindsay
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