I am always amazed at how some people think
all Scotland's best walks and climbs have to reach over the magic 3000 ft to be any good. There is nothing on Arran higher than about 2800ft, but what a place for walking...!
We followed the popular path up Goatfell from the Cladach car park, through the grounds of Brodick castle and out onto the open fell. The last couple of hundred metres of ascent was tough going up a path that increasingly needed hands and feet, but at the top, the view of the ridges to the north and west were just stunning. The photos never do it justice...
From the summit of Goatfell we descended the ridge to North Goatfell and then up to the rocky prominence of Mullach Buidhe, before coming back down to the Saddle and looking in awe up at the forbidding eastern face of Cir Mhor.
From the Saddle, it is a long and steady descent down into the beautiful Glen Rosa which eventually joins the cart track that emerges a few hundred meters up the string road. It was a full 8 hours out but we'd only really scratched at the surface of what you can do up here.....
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