Meall an Tuirc: I parked at the end of the public road in Glen Glass, accessed from Evanton, in Easter Ross, and walked east back along the road to the start of the track into the forest below Meall an Tuirc. I then walked north-west along one of the forest tracks, which was initially icy, later leaving it and heading towards Meall an Tuirc along an old track but it came to an end at an old quarry.
I continued uphill through the trees, rough going in places, but came across some old forest tracks that wound their way towards the west side of the hill although they eventually ran out. It was an easy enough walk through the trees, although there was lots of fallen timber to avoid, before emerging from the forest.
Here a rough vehicle track, icy in places, led to a gate in a deer fence. I walked up the edge of this fence with its muddy ground and brash, crossed the fence, and climbed through fairly long heather and tussocky ground to reach the summit of this Hump, a tussock on the south side of a pool of water.
I returned to the deer fence and instead of crossing it managed to push my way passed the trees to join the forest track. This track eventually emerged in Glen Glass at the point where I had left the public road to enter the forest.
Cnoc an Oir: I moved my car a short distance east and parked at the side of a vehicle track on the south side of Glen Glass, grid reference NH553688, and walked briefly south along the lightly snow covered track. Not far along it I left the track and climbed steeply through heather and trees to the summit of the Tump, Cnoc an Oir. I visited a few possible high points before returning by the ascent route.
Cnoc a’ Mhargadaidh: Again I moved my vehicle further down Glen Glass parking at the edge of the vehicle track west of Raeburn and walked down to the bridge over the River Glass on a an icy track. Once over the bridge I headed west then north-west following a forest track through the trees. At a junction of tracks I headed west along the lesser used track which was icy in places to below Cnoc a’ Mhargadaidh. I later left this track and worked my way through young fir trees onto the open hillside where the gradient increased. It was then a short but steady climb to the trig point marking the summit of this Tump. I returned to my car by the upward route.
- Total time – 4 hours.
- Total distance – 9.75 kilometres.
- Total height climbed – 535 metres.