Ben Avon 9 Aug 2020

A beautiful cloudless sunny day at the start of my week at Braemar with Jennifer and Matthew. A long but superbly scenic ascent of Ben Avon from Keiloch, a gradual but steady ascent through Glen Quoich and past the ruins Slugain Lodge. then up the wide, gently sloping glen with Beinn a' Bhuird rearing massively to the west and the whole landscape a riot of heathery colour. On reaching The Sneck, a steeper gravelly climb brought us to the massive summit plateau of Ben Avon, with the summit tor at 3,842'. A superb viewpoint especially of the other Cairngorm giants to the north and west. An equally long descent, but mostly heathery ground so fairly easy on the feet - a total distance for the day of 23 miles. Munro #248.