Inverroy Meadows

I'm a day late here. Mhairi and her friends had a lot of preparation then actual participation in the Roy Bridge School fun day. It was a huge success on another glorious day. The fun continued later when we had some folk round for a barbecue in the evening and the children all had great wholesome fun on a massive home made water slide.
My part in all this, in the early part of the day, was to keep the dogs occupied, and hopefully well exercised and tired out ahead of the evening entertainment. As today (Sunday) it was another scorcher and we climbed the forestry track at Upper Inverroy. I know this image is a bit of a landscape cliche, wide angle, small aperture with flowers (in this case) apparently taller than 4000 foot mountains but it did put me in mind of Mount Revelstoke Meadows. This photo is taken at about 500 feet, Mount Revelstoke Meadows stand at over 6000 feet and are famous for the swathes of colourful alpine flowers in late summer. Cast an eye around from the Revelstoke Meadows and you will see a huge glacier clinging impossibly to the face of Mount Begbe and in the other direction the Inverness Peaks and further round again the valley where the Columbia River runs. This is the fourth biggest river in North America and is dammed several times for Hydro power.
Anyway, these shadowy cliffs on Aonach Mor don't hold glaciers but this is still some of the most permanent snow anywhere in the UK. The Glen Spean Valley we look across here is a water system which is also dammed in several places for Hydro power and lies wholly within Inverness-shire so you could say they are Inverness Peaks too.

Inverness Peaks