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"Rob Milne" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Although listed as one of the most boring Corbetts, I had a good few

hours

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doing it. And my legs are still sore from the mountain bike .... I had my GPS so was confident I
would find it, in spite of low cloud cover. At the end of the public road, there is now a large
public car park.

The

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cycle to the cottage was fine and pretty flat. I still found it hard

work

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with a sac on my back. The nice valley and river made it worthwhile. The uphill track starts
behind the cottage and is not obvious at

first,

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but you can see the track going steeply up. I pushed my bike up the

hill,

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and this was very worthwhile, since there are long flat bits further

up.

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The track goes pretty far, stopping at NH61998 13432, only 1.4 miles

from

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the summit! The walk sounded dreadful from the book, but as it says, following the stream gives
good walking. Very good walking in fact.

I

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followed the stream almost to the col north of the summit and then

up a

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wide grassy bit. 0.2 miles from the top I followed a grassy trench

through

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the peat hags to within a 100 yds of the summit. There is a faint

path

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most of the way. Off the stream bed would be a nightmare! The summit had a small cairn with a pole
sticking up and was next to

a

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small flat rock with a round hole in it. (NH60030 14505) It only took a breath over 2 hours from
the car to the top! I had visions of a large flat area, but the summit is at the edge of moderate
slopes. There is a bit of a plateau 'behind' it. I wandered around a while to be sure. (the Sow of
Atholl has a much bigger and flatter area for example) I took a panorama with the mist down,
assuming it would be boring

anyway.

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Then as I started to head down, the mist lifted! back to the cairn

and

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took a second panorama. Nice view of the solitary wind turbine. Journey back was fine, but I
walked the bike downhill 3 times -

steep

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slopes! Back to the car in 4 hours round trip. A nice short day, but don't even think of
walking it! Rob

Sounds like a very good bike n hike ! 4 hours seems very impressive even with the bike given the
book time of just under 4 hours to the summit. Good report and I will save the details for a future
trip, Thanks. The forecast is good for Saturday but my walking partner is housebound so I will
probably look at one of three options this weekend. Ben Ledi and Ben Vane are a short drive away,
Meall an Fhudair is a bit further and Am Bathach is further yet but a short day, although I would
have to revisit Ciste Dhubh with this one. Cheers Graham