Beinn a Chroin

And so to the penultimate excursion of 2006. I had always fancied doing Beinn a Chroin but was loathe to repeat this from the Glen Falloch side and so opted to tacke it from Balquhidder. This time, I invited two colleagues from work to join me, as well as Shaz. Fraser and Norah were both keen and we took to the path, through a shoitey farm and around past some interesting cattle. From here, we headed up alongside a burn and once across this took to the slopes to try and head up through the crags. It was tough and by the time we got on to this knoll at ca. 700m, we were quite tired. However, we pressed on and headed up the final 200m, which again was quite steep until a strong wind buffeted us as we made our way along the ridge towards the summit. We didn't hang about and continued on to the end of the 1km ridge before heading back down under the South-facing crags. It was a very pleasant walk back to the car and we drove a couple of miles back along to the pink looking building called Monachmyle Mhor Hotel - a great place to have a wee pint and I quite liked the look of the food. A great fire place too to enjoy that post-coital Munro feeling.