Day 10 — Lochnagar Range — 26km — 9 hours — 1.500 altitude meters — 8 Munros

Excellent breakfast – thanks Jennifer from the Ivy B&B … 5 stars – and then we took off a little after 08:30 in light rain.

ready to leave

Less than 2 hours later we arrived at the Lochcallatar Lodge. TGO tea and some familiar faces. What a neat setup … would like to come back here and experience a couple of nights and the infamous men‘s bar.

Lochcallater Lodge
Ha ha … very inviting in the middle of nowhere!
The BAR at the Lodge – we heard some interesting stories. Please read the signs!

Then we started out Lochnagar range munro bagging tour. Initially it was really aweful … rained a lot combined with heavy winds.

The Munros (in the order of ascent) that we climbed: Carn an t-Sagairt Mor (1.047m), Carn an t-Sagairt Beag (1.044m), The Stuic (1.098m), Carn a Choire Bhoidheach (1.110), Cac Carn Beag (1.156m), Cac Carn Mor (1.150m), Cuide Crom (1.083m), and finally Meikle Pap (980m) before descending into Glen Muick.

Todays Tour

And we really were lucky with the weather. While it was very heavily blowing up on the ridge and peaks it even turned sunny towards the evening.

Enclosed some pictures of Cac Carn Beag from the peak and during the descend down into Glen Muick.

Peak of Cac Carn Beag
Lochnagar and steep walls
The mountain and Lochnagar lake during the descend
And here we are at the Queens Estate with plenty of deer very close by
We are camping on Balmoral Estate!!

Unclear what will happen tomorrow – Daniel is complaining about heavy knee pain. The youngsters! Anyway, gave him some IBU pain cream and let’s hope it is better tomorrow. The last Munro on the tour – Mount Keen – is something I really wanted to include that one. Then I would finish with

Mount Keen in the back — last Munro destination planned for tomorrow.

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