The morning after the club Annual Dinner
is never a good choice for an early start but given that Saturday morning
seemed to offer the only chance to get up a hill without being soaked and
flattened the alarm clock was duly set.
Ann & John rolled out of the car in
Glen Tanar at 8 am for a bike-assisted bag of Mount Keen. The crisp air and
bright sun on the autumn colours did their best to cut through the fug induced
by the previous night’s Brewdog Hardcore IPA, with little success. An hour of
cycling later things were looking better, with the hill still cloudless, the
threatened gales holding off and a clearer head. The final grind up Mount Keen
is not the most inspiring hill walk around, but the views were good and assured
us that we had made a good choice as most other big hills were in cloud.
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| Cycling up the glen |
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| Just to prove it was sunny earlier |
By
now the wind had picked up considerably but we carried on around to the
neighbouring HuMP of Braid Cairn just to make more of a walk of it, then back
down to the bikes via Gathering Cairn. The wind and gravity assisted ride back
down the glen was fast, interrupted only by a few sadly false mushroom alerts
through the woods, to get back to the car just as the rain started.
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| Traversing from Mount Keen to Braid Cairn |
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| Clachan Yell looking appropriately autumnal |
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