Ben Chonzie

The original plan was to get up fairly early, dive over to Crianlarich adn climb An Caisteal and Beinn a' Chroin. Unfortunately a mate's birthday a Judas Priest tribute band and several pints put that plan to bed, literally. Getting up late meant that we had to adjust our plans. We were having a look for a closer and shorter walk, the Forth Road Bridge was close to one lane so it had to be west rather than north. Looking at an online map of Munros we noticed Ben Chonzie sitting a little north-east of Loch Earn; a short walk in and not that high at 931m meant it matched our criteria.

The sun was shining and after a quick stop for petrol and some food we were on our way just after mid day. The sun continued to shine and we got a glorious, if not a bit hot at times, day out in the hills. When we had quickly read up about Ben Chonzie it was suggested that it's probably the dullest Munro, they were probably right, it's not a lot to look at. The hill itself is a pretty big featureless lump with a huge flat ridge leading up (just) to the summit, the walk in is pretty straight forward following land rover track for about half before turning off and up the hill. We didn't mind, the sun was out and it was a nice walk. We hadn't done much walking for a while so it was a good one to get us back into it. It might be a nice walk to do again in the winter sometime. It's pretty straight forward and apparently hold snow quite well, there were still a few small patches clinging on despite the high temperatures.