"Sunday 20th May 2018. An ascent of Geal-charn Mor 824m/227m and Creag Ghleannain 599m/30m from Lynwilg, near Aviemore, Highland. 13.1km, with 720m of ascent. 4hrs 0min. My first Highlands trip of the year, along with BC, DB and RP. We were booked for five nights in an Airbnb house in Kincraig, near Aviemore. It was the perfect position to access the Monadhliath Mountains to the west and Monadh Ruadh (Cairngorms) to the east. The forecast for our first walking day implied high winds and leaden skies, which did not favour an extended hike high on the Cairngorm plateau. As a leg-warmer, I chose a half-day outing up the nearest Corbett to our accommodation. It had the advantage that the gale-force southerly wind would be on our backs for the ascent. After a false start attempting to park in the Alltnacriche Outdoor Centre (see at https://www.alltnacriche.org.uk/about-3/), we secured a parking space outside the grounds where the public road ended. Here we joined the so-called Burma Road, which winds up steeply through woods alongside the boundary of the centre, on a wide track of crushed red granite. It formed a marked contrast to the local grey volcanic rocks of which the..." — marktrengove2 • May 20, 2018