Ascending Ben Lui, June 2014

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Starting the walk up the glen along the River Cononish from Dalrigh (between Crainlarich and Tyndrum). Ben Lui is not in view yet.

It looks like the crater of a volcano on the upper east slope of Ben Lui, but I don't believe it is a volcanic crater. I believe there was a heavy layer of glacial ice that carved out the top of the hill.

There is a good path just to the right of the burn up to the upper coire (as Gallic-speaking-people seem to call an upland gully originally cut out by a glacier).

Walking up the path there is the constant relaxing tune of the water falling over rocks.

Looking eastward back down the glen, the entire valley of the River Cononish has the distinctive U-shape of a glacial cut.

Looking up the grassy slope toward the right (western) rim of Coire Gaothach

Springtime wildflowers glowing brightly beside the burn.

Sitting for a rest in the grass looking across to the other side of the coire.

On the Stob Garbh ridge, the western rim of Coire Gaothach, looking up toward the top of Ben Lui.

From the top the view of distant hills is endless in all directions.

While walking back to the car, the setting sun lit up this cloud to the east, which is in turn reflected off of the River Cononish.

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