Mount Keen 1 Oct 2016

Our booked trip this last week was thwarted by the weather, with Jen and Matt returning home defeated midweek. An improvement in conditions gave me the opportunity to use my booked flight at the weekend, so I headed for the outlying eastern-most Munro, Mount Keen in the SE Cairngorms, approached from the east coast. A scenic drive up Glen Esk lead to the parking area and I headed up the broad track towards Queen's Well, then on up the shoulder of the heathery mountain with improving views back down Glen Esk, and west to Lochnagar. The weather was showery and the cloud rolled in before I reached the summit, with the jumble of rocks at the cairn at 3,081' appearing rather eerie in the mist. The return walk was enlivened by several very confiding Red Grouse. Munro no 189.