out and about - 2019
15 October 2019 ............... Above Barcaldine and Benderloch
After quite a spell of rather wet weather, it was nice to have a good day for a change, with plenty of blue sky and sunshine, and what turned out to be very good visibility.
So a good opportunity to see if I could cycle up through the Barcaldine forest and connect with the tracks coming up from Benderloch to Beinn Lora - they do, mission was accomplished, and it was a good afternoon.
Up at the first viewpoint that you come to after the long climb up from Barcaldine, and a good view across to Ben Cruachan - at least it would have been, but as usual Ben Cruachan had its hat on, however you can just make out the shape of the westerly peak of Ben Cruachan -
Excellent visibility away up to the north -
And so on up the track - back into the trees, and more climbing up some rather rough bits of track, away round and past Beinn Lora that was hidden by all the trees, until eventually I could look up to the summit of Beinn Lora, sad to say that Beinn Lora isn`t one of the more distinctive hills in the area, but here it is anyway -
More track, and eventually meeting the tracks up from Benderloch, and up to the highest viewpoint on the manufactured track - from this point on the path up to Beinn Lora is just a worn path, and very boggy in places.
However it is a great viewpoint - looking away down the Forth of Lorne - rather looking into the sun, so not the best picture, but a super view in real life -
Good visibility looking across to Kingairloch -
Starting to head away back to Barcaldine, plenty of the afternoon left, so I headed up a side track to see where it went - it was a good move, the track climbed away up and around the side of a hill which had been clear felled, so no trees, and up at the top end of the track was another excellent viewpoint.
So this is looking away to the west down the west end of Loch Creran past South Shian, Eriskay, Appin, the north end of Lismore, and across to Kingairloch -
A much better view up to the north because from this point the various mountains are more separated, and in fact it looks like you are seeing right up into the Mamores -
And so back down towards Barcaldine, and by the time I was back at that first lower viewpoint the west peak of Cruachan had got rid of its hat, but the eastern and summit peak was still in cloud -
website design by ron-t
website hosting by freevirtualservers.com
© 2024 Ron Turner
