Creag Each walk-run

I can't believe it's been over 3 months since my last Graham. This was a fairly fortuitous pad as I decided to pop back from Dundee via Comrie and take in a hill around there. The day was warm but frustratingly, it was very hazy around Loch Earn. At 1440, I parked in a lay-by next to lazy fishermen, who were passing the day away with beer, a fire and a line in the loch. I was going light as I wanted to run part of the route. Upon zig-zagging up the land rover track into Glen Tarken, I realised it was a steep little start but once past the old cottages, the track levelled out and I began to jog and walk interchanging as the contours alternated. I had also decided that I would bag the Graham top, Sron Mhor and the West top of Creag Each. This would add distance and extra ascent, which would help my endurance for the upcoming Lairig Ghru race.

The wide open coire over to Creag Ruadh was in sharp contrast to Coire Etchachan, where i had been the previous week and I decided I would come back to do this one in Winter, as it seemed like a wild area, which would be ideal on a cold, frosty day. I'm not sure where the summit was for Sron Mhor but I am sure I passed it before the descent and ascent up on to the West top of my objective. From here, the actual Graham didn't look much higher but there was bog to navigate around. Some of the summit boulders were of interest, with little corridors peeling off in different directions. I was the top in 1 hour 15 with a view down to the massive caravan park beside Loch Earn. While at the summit, I spied another cairn, further NE so I made my way over to that. There was no sign it was a memorial cairn but I can't think why there would be another well-structured cairn so distant from the summit.

From here, I really picked up the pace and motored down the North ridge to the land rover track. My pace for the next 3 miles was approximately 8.5 minutes per mile and I reached the car at 1 hour 47 after starting out. A nice wee pad-run.