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Stob Breac(688m)

Sunday 24th April 2016

11kms

6hrs

Five miles and twenty minutes driving beyond Balquhidder on a narrow, twisting single track road brought us to the small car park at Inverlochlarig, the starting point for walkers setting out north for Stob Binnein, north west for Beinn Tulaichean or south west for Stob a'Choin; oddly enough we were the only ones setting off south! Maybe not such a surprise when you realise, this was one of Alan's "That hill would make a good walk." days.!

And south it was, across the river and a few grassy fields and then straight up, and up, and up. Stob Breac is not a high top, one of the lesser Graham's, but climbing it's north face involves a very steep ascent on grassy slopes before finally skirting around a few stoney crags to reach the grassy ridge. From the car park we could determine a stream and gully rising just right of centre of the hillside before curving behind some crags and rising towards the ridgeline, and this was the general route we stuck by as we made our ascent. The going was certainly hard, with some grassy scrambling on the steeper sections, however, we were able to skirt around those crags that we encountered and gain the broad grassy northern top at around the 600m height.

From the 600m northern top, this broad, grassy ridge undulates, twists and turns for just under 3kms to the distant southern top of An Stuchd, crossing the high point of Stob Breac at 688m en route. In beautiful sunshine we strolled along the 3kms, stopping at our leisure to explore or take in the views offered on a day where the visibility was in excess of 30kms. Just wonderful as we made ourselves comfortable in a small sheltered hollow and just sat around to soak up the sunshine and take in the views.

However, we had to leave the hillside at some point and so we angled off north from An Stuchd for a short distance before descending north west over open hillside to the entrance of a firebreak, running west through the forest and descending to a well defined forest track which we joined for a leisurely walk back along Glen Sgionie and our return to Blaircreich and thence back to the car park.

A great little hill, marvellous weather and good company - Thanks Alan.

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