Leanachan Lochan

The heat was "worse" than ever today and the dogs looked like they were really feeling it so it was light duties. Bruce has a darker, thicker coat and I think he has more difficulty cooling down so he got a wee stretch just on the lead and some playing in the garden at home. I took Caley for a short but interesting walk at Leanachan; a spot I clearly hadn't visited in warm weather. The lochan is roughly central in the vast open marshland within the forest. There are no made or trodden paths to this point and the walker must trundle through some very tussocky forest fire breaks and where wind fall has crashed trees down on the route you must skirt around in dense sitca. This is fine in February or March where you are head to toe in rugged water proofs but today I was in a tee shirt in shorts. Such hurdles are invisible to Caley and we got there in the end and he enjoyed a good twenty minutes of swimming. This is looking south east over the loch and you can just make out the point of Stob Coire na Ceannain the most easterly of the Grey Corries which we climbed and blipped on Friday.