The throbbing in my leg woke me just before the alarm went off. A quick check outside confirmed that it was rain I could hear on the camper van roof, with cloud level not much higher than that. Oh well, I can at least head up Beinn Ghlas and see how things go. There is a nice slow descent from Ghlas to Lawers, and if my leg is too sore I can always escape back off round to the van using the stalkers path… such was my thinking as I climbed up into the mist on the shoulders of Beinn Ghlas.
With a cold damp westerly and cloud obscuring views, there wasn’t much to stop for and I soon made the top of Lawers. By the time I was half way across to An Stuc the cloud lifted giving fine views from Glen Coe in the west, along the Nevis range over the Grey Corries, Ben Alder, Drumochter, to the still snowy heights of the Caringorms and Glen Shee hills to the east.
From Meall Greigh I dropped down to the dam at the top of the Lawers Burn and took the Land Rover track back west along the 600m contour towards the van waiting at the visitor centre car park. This proved too much for the leg, and it seems it’s the combination of flat hard surface with a shallow descent that really aggravates. It was with some relief that I left the track to head across the moors to meet the Beinn Ghlas path just above the NTS Nature Trail, and back to the van.
A quick drive back down to Killin, grab some food supplies and back to the campsite for a huge meal and some more leg rubbing!
Ummm… perhaps I really do need to rest properly for a couple of days and let this leg thing get better.
Great photos. Hope the leg has recovered and you're back on form... Looking forward to more stories and pics!
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