Saturday, January 12, 2019

Glen Fruin

New route today, aim was to run up the road to Glen Fruin reservoir then ascend Beinn Chaorach dropping off the back into Glen Luss climb Cruach an t Sidhein, coming back over Beinn Mahanach and The Strone.


About 9 miles and 4500' of ascent. Set off about 1pm, with the lack of daylight hours a bit late and decided to miss Cruach an t Sidhein out. Slow climb up Chaorach, wind increasing with height, into crouch mode on the top.


Difficult to stay upright and scuttled off as quickly as possible, decided to give Mahanach a miss as well, dropped down to the watershed between Glens Luss and Fruin, crossing over for the short climb to The Strone, ignoring the temptation to climb Mahanach.




Steady run down the track past the firing range warnings signs to finish about 6 miles and 2500' of ascent inside 2 1/2 hours.

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