With a rail special on, Alan Anderson and myself jumped the early train (07:06) north towards Kingussie with the luxury of fresh coffee to start the journey. The trip was made especially easy with no requirement to change at Perth. Six hours between arriving and the return journey gave a comfortable time window to ascend Carn an Fhreceadain (878m).
Rambling up through the golf course we saw two red squirrels – one alive and running up a tree and one dead having sadly been hit by a car. Past Pitmain Lodge (a very strange looking place), we started out onto the open hill with rain threatening. Stopped at a small (but rather posh) estate bothy for a bite to eat – reckon it is more used to shooting parties than more regular hill folks. Continuing up the land rover track the rain arrived big style – waterproofs on which also gave some additional protection from the increasing wind. Arriving on the summit of Beinn Bhreac it was clear that the OS map needs updating since the landrover track extended across to the main summit. It was simply a case of heads down and over to the trig point for a couple of photographs before continuing down onto the lee slope and out of the wind a bit. There were great views looking down to the town and over the Spey and Insh Marshes.
We arrived back just missing the earlier train south so opted for the Tipsy Laird and a couple of hours watching the Darts on TV.
Out of the cloud ...but only just !
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