Day 6
Wednesday 19th May - Tummel Bridge to Blair Atholl
This was to be another fairly long day as we intended to make Blair Atholl that evening. Grandfather decided he would set off in front to allow the younger ones to walk at their pace when they were ready and we would meet at the Loch Tummel Hotel before starting the walk over the hills. Again it was a wonderful day and we were blessed with fine views of Schiehallion with Loch Tummel in the foreground.
We reached Blair Atholl during the afternoon and were pleased to see Marian with more supplies as our rations of pasta meals were getting sorely depleted in order to keep Nigel nourished! The Blair Atholl campsite was its usual sociable place with a number of Challengers already there. We all had a slap up meal at the Tilt Hotel and prepared for what was going to be the long next day. We had been listening to the weather forecast and although we were going to have a nice summer day to go through Glen Tilt, the following day, Friday, was being forecast as pretty bad. Grandfather decided that we should push on to get over the Geldie Burn before camping.
