The Glenshee 6

It seemed a good idea to have a hill day so the plan was hatched to meet Jack and Jen at Glenshee on Sunday am. 6 munro's seemed ambitious but they were all quite closely spaced and we arranged a car shuttle to save 3 + miles of road walking.

other walkers.. very yorkshire dales like (but not limestone!)

The drive over past the Llecht is long and beautiful. It was certainly popular and I'm not sure whether I've seen as many camper vans as this day up here! It was even more surprising seeing approx 20+ tents spaced out from car campers between Braemar and Glenshee. I don't know if this beautiful valley is normally like this in summer but it was crazy. I just really hope they were careful and considerate with their waste, judging by some of the vehicles, fire pits and pop up tents I'm not sure! It would be tragic if the river became polluted from all of these folk.

This is the first munro summit!

Loads of walkers at Glenshee enjoying the day as we set off up our first hill. Amazing how many folk had shorts on given the blustery day which was quite fresh/cold up top when the rain came in, but I guess it takes a lot to get my legs out!

on to the grassy hills..

It was a perfect hill walking day with great views, intermittent rain, fresh, great light and good company. I have previously ski toured 2 of these hills and it was very different with no snow, but easy going walking.

With the heavy rain showers at times I didn't take many pictures but enjoyed the walk very much. For the geeks we started up Creag Leacach - Glas Maol - Carn of Claise. From here we didn't know whether to throw in the extra 2 (Tolmount and Tom Buidhe). To go up these hills separate to this walk involves quite a long trudge so we did. They were fairly indiscript bumps after the first hills but still good to explore.

The decent from the last hill

Heading back it took longer than expected to reach the last top of Carn an Tuirc but from it was a great step direct path back down the strath which was a joy to walk after the initial scree section. So there you have it, 6 hills in around 14 miles! This takes my munro count to 103 .... not that I'm counting! :-)