Wednesday 25 June 2025 - Meall Sguman

Today Sue and Roger walked over the Three Brothers. A group of us failed to complete this walk in April 2009, but today the two of them succeeded with ease.

Tom and Mike went onto the Five Sisters, climbing to two and one of the summits respectively. 

David had a bad day as a truck drove into the back of his car in the car park near the battle site.

Julie and I cycled 11km up the track from Killilan to Carnach then we walked up Meall Sguman (544 metres). The track, pictured above, rises 100 metres over the course of its ascent to Carnach. A mole ran across the road ahead of me.

There are views across to the gully that leads to the Falls of Glomach.

We left the bikes at a sad building that seemed to be under siege from House Martins.

Here's the view back down to Loch na Leitreach.

An excellent stalkers path gained quite a bit of height.

There was a good view back down to Carnach, before we lurched onto a plateau and joined an ATV track that led across a river and onwards over boggy ground towards the summit.

Here we are on the summit, near where we lunched in a sheltered spot. 

We disturbed some deer, as usual.

After a while we descended gently to rejoin the main ATV track to the left of Loch Lon Mhurchaidh.

A waterfall is passed on this path.

After encountering three groups of DofE students and their assessors, we arrived back at the bikes.

It was an enjoyable ride back to Killilan. 

Here's our route:

11km bike ride with 150 metres ascent in an hour.

7km walk with 450 metres ascent in 3 hours.

11km bike ride with 50 metres ascent in 45 minutes.

Many flowers again. Here are a couple.