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Bridge of Orchy 5 Munros,July 2024

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We Return to Scotland again as i tag along on Jamies Munro campaign,this time after a stop over the night before in Perth we pull up in the Bridge of Orchy Train station car park for 10 am,Friday morning Its a nice 15-18c with some high cloud keeping most of the heat at bay we head SE first following the WHW and greeting the folk walking this lovely walk  At the first bridge we turn and head off following the river NE on a solid landrover track,the old farm building is gone and theres a lot of new buildings and houses now being built here,some serious coin being spent  We carried on picking up a nice breeze,passing under the viaduct the track has had some good repair work done and is easy walking,we stopped for lunch near the old house where the poet  Duncan Ban MacIntyre, lived for a while  I thought when i came this way in early 2000s that it still was a run down house ? but now its a sheep pen/workshop area  From there we followed a track up to some old dam t...