Walk of the week: Creag Ruadh

By ROBIN HOWIE
Published on 05/02/2012 13:00

MINUS 2C at the start of the walk, but with no breeze; a crisp sunny blue-sky day – January days don’t come any better.

I met Jimbo, broken-wrist John (don’t ask) and the two Brians in Comrie, bound for Ben Chonzie. Having already climbed this Munro, I was not so keen to join them, but the real reason was that I was recovering from a fortnight’s very heavy cold.

My alternative was Creag Ruadh which stands in the fairly featureless moorland area between Loch Tay to the north and Loch Earn to the south. At 2,336ft/712m, it comfortably qualifies as one of the Grahams – hills in Scotland between 2,000ft/610m and 2,499ft/761m, with a drop of at least 150 metres on all sides.

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