Weather looking good so very last minute decision to head to the hills with Andrew and Lizzie. We parked in the high car park at the SE end of the Lawers ridge (just N of Loch Tay) and headed up towards Bheinn Ghlas, the first of 5 tops on the main ridge, with no fixed plan with regard to how far we'd go. The weather was as good as the forecast suggested so we committed ourselves to the whole ridge with a long walk or hopefully hitch hike back to the car from it's north west end. The walking was excellent; with a couple of minor scrambles the ridge and Ben Lawers itself are much more interesting that they appear from Loch Tay. As luck would have it we had a very fortuitous and 'small world' encounter with some old friends from Shropshire who we spotted hang-gliding in the valley below us. Knowing that the UK hang-gliding community is pretty small I gave Myles K a ring to see if it was him and it was. So we met the Kynaston crowd in the 'up a Munro, down a pint' pub next to Loch Tay and borrowed their car to retrieve ours. All in all a grand day out.
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| Ben Lawers |
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