Meall Ghaordaidh

Another stunningly beautiful Sunday, cold, crip and clear.

The car temperature gauge read -9degrees as we sped through Glen Dochart past the frozen Loch Lubhair and the Christmas postcard style snow laden pine trees. We parked in Glen Lochay at Tullich and set off over the frozen fields up the straightforward route. While the sun was out and we were waking on the lower slopes it felt pretty warm. As we climbed higher and the wind picked up the bitter northerly wind ripped at or faces. As we approached the summit we all had scarves pulled up and were adding extra layers as we picked out and tried to identify the hundreds of snowy summits all around us. With hats pulled low, sunglasses and scarves over faces it looked like a bank robbers day out in the hills.

In the pictures you can see the numerous paths churned through the deep snow up the hillside to the summit. Glad I did this on a clear winters day as i imagine it's a pretty boring lump in anything but these conditions.

Today it was stunning.