Around Scotland: MAYAR & DRIESH

Thursday, 12 February 2015

MAYAR & DRIESH

january adventure :)

although the area is easily accessible and reasonably close to edinburgh we have never visited glen clova before. in general we kinda ignored angus area.. dunno why

we left edi very early in the morning and arrived to glen clova just in time for sunrise. amazing!

mayar & driesh are situated very close to each other therefore bagging them both together seems natural, really. both are gentle, belly-style, as are all the mountains in the area. may actually seem boring for some..

in the summer the route takes about 4.5hrs, in winter conditions it took us about 7hrs

we started at sunrise and finished well after sunset, but it was a brilliant day, no doubt about it!

there is a charge for parking in glen clova (the machine was broken thou)

visitor centre, caffee, toilets

joined us: krtiko & martin

munros of the day:

mayar 928 m

driesh 947 m

styczniowa przygoda :)

pomimo ze okolica stosunkowo bliska i latwo dostepna z edynburga, jeszcze nigdy tam nie bylysmy. no to wlasnie byl ten pierwszy raz :)

ruszylismy z edynburga bardzo wczesnie i dotarlismy do glen clova dokladnie na wschod slonca. pieknie bylo!

mayar i driesh sa blisko polozone wiec zaliczenie obu naraz jest dosc naturalne. ona sa lagodnymi, brzuchowatymi gorami i prawde mowiac taki tez jest krajobraz dookola, dla niektorych moze byc nudny

trasa w lecie zajmuje okolo 5.5godz, nam przejscie zimowe zajelo ok 7godz

zaczelismy o wschodzie slonca, skonczylismy juz grubo po zachodzie

parking w glen clova jest platny (ale maszyna popsuta)

jest schronisko z kafejka i toaleta

dolaczyli do nas krtiko & martin

munrosy

mayar 928 mnpm

driesh 947 mnpm

route of the day / trasa dnia

map copyright ordnance survey

we took the track starting at the visitor centre and after few minutes the track forked and we turned left towards the trees and the bridge crossing the river. then followed a woodland track to the right and after another 5 mins we turned left to the small forest path going up the hill. the path is signposted as kilbo walk. we followed this path all they way up to the tree line, crossed a stream and soon found ourselves in an open space with views to corrie kilbo. from there path climbs steadily to the black skellies and we reached the plateau in no time. the path is visible at all times but the route up the two munros is simple - up to the left and then back to the skellies and further to the summit of mayar. we retraced our steps on the way back as the day was quickly growing darker..

zaczelismy szlak podazajac sciezka, w sumie traktem przy schronisku. po kilku minutach marszu skrecilismy w lewo w kierunku drzew oraz mostu zabierajacego nas na druga strone rzeczki. za mostem skrecilismy w prawo i po kilku minutach zobaczylismy sciezke na kilbo (po lewej) tam skrecilismy i juz caly czas szlismy wlasnie ta sciezka. wiedzie ona w gore przez las i az do linii drzew, dosc szybko znalezlismy sie na otwartej przestrzeni juz ponad laden, z widokiem na corrie kilbo. teraz sciezka piela sie zboczem gory az do bladk skittles, duzej rowniny pomiedzy munrosami driesh i mayar. sciezka jest widoczna caly czas, ale nawet gdyby jej nie bylo to trasa wejscie na pierwszego munrosa driesh jest latwa - w gore! po zdobyciu szczytu spowrotem na dol do rowniny i dalej na drugiego munrosa mayar'a.

my wrocilismy spowrotem na parking ta sama droga jako ze zaczynalo sie juz powoli robic szaro, ale opcji wejscia jest kilka.