[23] NO 18896 80895 Loch Kandar

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25/11/07 Dave H, Dave S, Ben, Roelf
Easy run here from the head of Loch Callater. Still cold and windy, with the waterfalls frozen and quite a lot of snow high up. The corrie was very impressive. We then went straight up the side of the corrie to the North West and took a direct line over Carn Dubh back to the car at the mouth of the Baddoch. Very steep climb - had to crawl through the snow drift at the top. Windy, and Roelf get very cold - not wearing enough clothes. Thought we might end up carrying him, but it turned out that it was Megan, Dave's dog, that couldn't cope. The poor thing had to be carried off the last hill down to the car. A day to remember. Took about 3 hours altogether.

01/10/07 Karen, Jo and malcolm

Cycled up Glen Callater leaving bikes at end of the loch. Followed a footpath on the south side of the river which takes you most of the way up to the corrie. Pretty wet underfoot.

09/08/07 Evelyn & Derek

Left the bikes at the head of the loch and jogged up Jock's Road. The path through the boggy area is a bit indistinct but boulders mark the burn crossings. Once off the flat area the path is clear but it is difficult to know where to turn for Kandar. We couldn't see any real path and basically aimed up the burn coming down out of Kandar.

Lovely grassy area towards the top for my Julie Andrews impression.

Kandar was impressive, saw the eagle - assume it lives on the many toads which we saw on the way up?

Back to our bikes, 2nd lunch and a nice run out to the car.

29/4/07 Dave and Kathy. After the loch Glen Callater gets very interesting. Jock's Road goes over a col to the south but we turned off it to the west up to loch Kander, which is very spectacular. More impressive than the Lochnagar corrie I thought. To make it even better an eagle was circling overhead.
The run took about 3 hours from the bottom of Glen Callater but we weren't going particularly fast, and a bike would have helped a lot for the first 3 miles. This was possibly Kathy's longest ever run.

Peter 07/09/07

Cracking day on friday so had a run up glen Callater to the loch then up and out of the corrie and over to the Tolmount. Once out of the corrie the ground was rough and boggy as i traversed around Cairn of Claise, if i was to do it again i would probably just go up to the top of the hill and then along to the Tolmount, its a bit dryer and more runable higher up if i remember corectly. from the tolmount headed east to the high point of jocks (point 22)