Up the track from Alvie House 20th July 2010

Another attempt to find a circular route from up the hill and back again. We set off early as we were on a bit of a deadline…I had to be in Inverness bt 7pm to meet some wedding clients so had to get back in time to brush up. We headed straight up to the locked gate that we reached the other day and by good team work managed to get the bikes over the gate. despite my bad back. We continued up the track and came across a wonderful bothy – see pictures, later up the track we met two walkers who had stayed at another bothy near the spot where the elusive track should be found. the man said there was a track…his woman seamed less sure. At the top of a steep hill we pondered…was there a track..roger doubted we could ride back up the track ……it was very loose and steep. We went for it and headed down to the rickety bridge. We had lunch but could only see a faint track through the grass….it soon disappeared, we retraced our steps and went over the bridge then forded two streams but much searching and a push up hill did not lead to any track. reluctantly we headed back the way we came. roger pushing his bike up the loose track. and back to the Alvie house track. luckily the gate was open for the return. it had been raining hard and roger had a bit of a fall and hurt his elbow. we arrived back in time to get spruced up before my meetings.