Tolmount and Tom Buidhe

Tolmount, 958m, and Tom Buidhe, 957m

Date: 09/10/2004

Tops and Munros

Companions: Anne

Crow Craigies (T) 920m
Tolmount (M) 958m
Tom Buidhe (M) 957m

Distance: 20km

Climbing: 850m

Time: 7.25 hours

Weather: overcast, some brief blinks of clear sky, cool breeze

Munro Tally: M174-175, T295-297

A day on the way home form working in Aberdeen. Anne came up by train to Dundee, and we stayed in a very nice farmhouse B&B just north of Kirreimuir.

It was beautiful bright morning as we drove up Glen Clova. Unfortunately, the sky soon became overcast. However, it remained dry all day.

We set off at 10am from the car park at the top of the road, and followed "Jock's Road" up through Glen Doll forest - track, then path through the trees. After about 4km, the apth led out of the forest into a lovely corrie, surrounded by a band of crags. A good path led up the right hand side of the corrie, gaining height steadily, then breaking through the crags into an upper corrie. We paused for a rest at the top of this, examining the bothy, and admiring the view back doen from the cairn.

From here the path became a little indistinct, and we found ourselves in the boggy valley floor, and had to climb steeply up to the right to regian the path as it sloped up the hillside on to the broad ridge, leading to Crow Craigies, the first top of the day. The view opened up to the Cairn Bannoch and Lochnagar ranges to the north. It was now 12.10, so time for a spot of lunch, before contiinuing across the moor and up to Tolmount (1pm), a small rocky crown on the edge of rolling moorland.

From Tolmount, we circled west, them south, then east, over Ca Whins to Tom Buidhe, the next Munro. This involved crossing some boggy moorland, but it was pretty dry underfoot after a lengthy dry spell of weather. Both Munros are really little more than outliers of the Glen Shee hills - Cairn of Claise and Carn an Tuirc.

We descended easily over grassy slopes SE from Tom Buidhe, rejoining Jock's Road at the bothy, then following it back down the corrie, throught the woods to the car park.

Glen Doll

Glen Doll

Anne on the path up the corrie at the top of Glen Doll, just after emerging from the forest. Saw loads of deer on the souht (left) side of the corrie.

Tom Buidhe

Looking up the upper glen from the top of the corrie. Tom Buidhe is the undistinguished lump an the horizon. the bothy can be seen below the path to the right. There is an impressive waterfall in a gully behind the cairn (not visible in the photo). The blue skies seen here soon disappeared.

Tolmount

Tolmount

At the carin on the summit of Tolmount, looking south, with Tom Buidhe at the edge of the picture to the left., and Glas Maol on th horizon to the right.

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Date: 09/10/2004	Tops and Munros
Companions: Anne	Crow Craigies (T) 920m Tolmount (M) 958m Tom Buidhe (M) 957m
Distance: 20km
Climbing: 850m
Time: 7.25 hours
Weather: overcast, some brief blinks of clear sky, cool breeze
Munro Tally: M174-175, T295-297
A day on the way home form working in Aberdeen. Anne came up by train to Dundee, and we stayed in a very nice farmhouse B&B just north of Kirreimuir. It was beautiful bright morning as we drove up Glen Clova. Unfortunately, the sky soon became overcast. However, it remained dry all day. We set off at 10am from the car park at the top of the road, and followed "Jock's Road" up through Glen Doll forest - track, then path through the trees. After about 4km, the apth led out of the forest into a lovely corrie, surrounded by a band of crags. A good path led up the right hand side of the corrie, gaining height steadily, then breaking through the crags into an upper corrie. We paused for a rest at the top of this, examining the bothy, and admiring the view back doen from the cairn. From here the path became a little indistinct, and we found ourselves in the boggy valley floor, and had to climb steeply up to the right to regian the path as it sloped up the hillside on to the broad ridge, leading to Crow Craigies, the first top of the day. The view opened up to the Cairn Bannoch and Lochnagar ranges to the north. It was now 12.10, so time for a spot of lunch, before contiinuing across the moor and up to Tolmount (1pm), a small rocky crown on the edge of rolling moorland. From Tolmount, we circled west, them south, then east, over Ca Whins to Tom Buidhe, the next Munro. This involved crossing some boggy moorland, but it was pretty dry underfoot after a lengthy dry spell of weather. Both Munros are really little more than outliers of the Glen Shee hills - Cairn of Claise and Carn an Tuirc. We descended easily over grassy slopes SE from Tom Buidhe, rejoining Jock's Road at the bothy, then following it back down the corrie, throught the woods to the car park.