Wednesday 21 March 2007

Dreish and Mayar


To the 4th day of my MarchMunrofest. As per, we hit the car park at a mighty long road in only to discover that lovely weather outwith the glen was not the same once in it. Anyway, we headed off through the woods, past the Youth Hostel and took a left along the land rover path. Before long, we saw a staked post with 'Kilbo path' on it and followed this through the forest. 'Twas an excellent path and as we continued higher up, the weather got better and better. As we exited the forest, we spied the path rising up above the glen to the bealach - it was a very picturesque corrie and still had some snow on the higher parts. Getting up to the bealach was very easy and an excellent walk compared with the 2 previous hills. Once at the bealach, we were fair buffeted by the winds but we decided to opt for Dreish first and before long, we were sitting in the shelter with the OS trigpoint, happy to have lunch and enjoy the views across to Mount Keen and the other hills. Afore long, we headed back the return route and once past the bealach, aimed for Mayar, a km walk from the bealach. The path again was very clear and followed a fence towards the base of the summit. However, we did pass a pole which must have had a sign on it at some point - amazed someone hadn't sawed down the eyesore. By the time, we hit the summit of Mayar, we didn't hing aboot as the weather turned wintry. The return route to the car was no problem and a nice wee pint about 3 miles from the car park was had in the Glen Clova hotel - they do some interesting ales and have a great wee fire going.

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