Wanderings up North

We only had time for another short trip,so we left my car at St Johns vale and drove Lees up to Dumial Raise The route took us down to the Birkside Gill which was looking good with all Fridays rain in it.Striding edge was its busy self but other than the summit it was reasonably quiet The ground was pretty dry  but the streams we crossed (Can see in video more) were showing the effects of the very heavy rain we had Friday night We choose to camp on Randerside,close by the summit,camped here a few times,litte did we know that some "Trek-Lite" members were camped up on Stybarrow Dodd summit I had one of these sent to try from a nice young late,WOW is al,id say the best tasting FD meal ive tasted..lets hope someone can get them at a good price     It had been a nice day with a little breeze and nice blue clouds floating around,max temp I saw was a warm 18c It turned into a nice evening but the temp followed the sun down ...

  So as we had to cancel a trip away in the caravan,i found myself with an extra Scotland trip in the offing On a winter trip a few years ago,we dropped Meall Greigh,from the Ben Lawers group,due to very deep snow.So we decided to do it on our travel up day.Did get a cracking dawn at camp,think it was Nov 2013 So on the drive up from Penrith we decide to just nab this one as a short day walk.Weather was mixed but mainly sunny but a fierce wind chased us off and 500 ft down the summit This was one of a few gusts ! Then it was an hours drive to our B&B for the night the Red house at Ballintium,near Blairgowrie,great stay and a huge breakfast and all for £25 pp  we will be back I think.The numbers 01250 886217,Oscar made another fan too Last Meal ! A short drive then took us to Spittal of Glenshee, a short drive up the road took us to Dalmunzie hotel were you can park for £2.50 a day It was a very humid day ...