After dropping him off, I drove along to Cairnbaan which is
on the way to Crinan so that I could run the forest walks there with Ruby. There are a few different walks at Cairnbaan
but the longest is only three miles so I decided to do this one, plus two
others, one around a mile and a half and one around two miles.
They were pretty hard work!
The first one involved a good climb to the trig point on top of .
Ruby, as usual was pretty tired so I did have thoughts of
calling it a day after the three mile loop but then she seemed to perk up so we
did the other two loops, which were much nicer anyway because a lot of the
longer loop was on forest road and I prefer the narrow trails which the other two
shorter trails had a lot of.
You might be reading my holiday blogs thinking I’m a right
wimp for doing a lot of these forest trails instead of just heading off into
the mountains and, to be honest, you’d be right. I just think it would be highly irresponsible
of me to go off into the mountains on my own, with pitiful navigation skills
and a compass which points in the wrong direction. There’s also the fact that there is no mobile
signal so a simple fall resulting in a sprained ankle could be disastrous,
given that other walkers/runners are very few and far between out here. Ruby is no Lassie and I’m pretty sure
wouldn’t go running off to find help. I
really enjoy the forest trails and, believe it or not, some of them are pretty
challenging so that’s good enough for me, I am on holiday after all! I have no fear of getting lost so
can just relax and have a good run.
It was our last day in Argyll today as we’re off to
Drumnadrochit tomorrow morning for the second week of our holiday. Hopefully I’ll find lots more good run routes
up there and the weather will stay good for us.
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d be in shorts for this amount
of my holiday!
Positive comments – felt great on the climbs and there were quite a lot
of them on this one.
Total distance – 6
miles
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