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| Ben A'an sunset |
11th September 2014, Ben A'an, The Trossachs
Ben A'an lies in the heart of The Trossachs within Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. It translates as 'small rocky peak'
which is very apt because from the viewpoint on the Dukes Pass, which
carries the A821 over to Aberfoyle, it does look like a miniature
mountain with a craggy cone-shaped summit, cliffs and steep slopes that
descend west to Loch Katrine. It has two summits; at 461m its east
summit is higher, but it is the rockier west summit, at 451m, which gets the visitors for the view it commands
over The Trossachs to Ben Venue and westwards along Loch Katrine towards
the Arrochar Alps. I climbed up for the sunset and, like earlier in the year, had the summit to myself. At this time of the year the sun sets at the far end of Loch Katrine and lit up the summit rocks as it did so.
