Cruach Tairbeirt - Scotland day 12

For our last walk we needed somewhere en route home.  I wanted to do a walk with views of Loch Lomond, so we went for Cruach Tairbeirt - it looked like a good choice as it was a short route (needed due to the long drive back) and would have good views to The Cobbler, Beinn Narnain and on the other side of the loch Ben Lomond.

The walk starts off by the train station and we initially got told off by a local resident for parking in the train station parking spaces (there is no sign up to warn you not to) she told us to park in the bigger car park below for the heritage centre which we did (we'd assumed we couldn't park there initially as it was a business) On the OS map there is only a track marked to the edge of the hillside but in reality there are lots of well trod marked trails. It was a bit of a steep slog through the woods up made worse by the fact it was boiling hot - we'd overdressed again! Emma moaned a bit about the uphill, but soon cheered up when we got to some fallen trees and she had those to climb over.



The path was boggy and very eroded on our way up, nearly falling away in some places during the last section to the top. We concluded that it must get allot of footfall due to the easy trails & the appeal of it as a good low view point.

Cobbler on the left Narnain on the right


The top had a trig point which pleased Emma and it was good to see the views of all the big hills. The Cobbler and Beinn Narnain looked very craggy and scary! We enjoyed our first lunch stop in our t-shirts - spring had finally sprung on our last day in Scotland.



Ben Lomond in the background




By Emma




We took a different route back down, heading back through the woods again on different trails. We ended our time in Scotland on the shores of Loch Lomond skimming stones and eating cake. We will be back!