Last Saturday I posted photos of An Lochan Uaine near the path on our walk through Glenmore Forest Park. Today here are some more photos of our walk after we left the lochan. The route continued along the Ryvoan Pass on the old Rathad nam Mearlach – or Thieves Road. Cattle raiders used hill tracks like this to move their spoils avoiding the more well-used routes.
As we went gradually up the hill this building came into view:
It’s a bothy – see this article explaining what a bothy is. The photo below shows the entrance:
and this is what is inside:
There are some rules:
It’s a very welcome shelter – especially on a wet, windy day!
For more Saturday Snapshots see Melinda’s blog West Metro Mommy.
the Cairngorms – and there was snow in May.
Lower down the snow fell too but didn’t stick. The photo below is of a beautiful little loch in the Glenmore Forest Park, An Lochan Uaine the ‘green lochan’ (although in my photo it looks blue – it was really green!). ‘Lochan’ is Gaelic for ‘ a small loch, or lake’.
The green shows up more in this photo:
