Loch Nagar

England thy beauties are tame and domestic
To one who has roved on the mountains afar
Oh for the crags that are wild and majestic
The steep frowning glory of Dark Loch Nagar

Lord Byron 

Loch Nagar is, confusingly, the name of the mountain in the distance viewed here from the summit of Mount Keen the most easterly of the Munros. This was a new Munro for Caley and myself. I was pleased to get this view as the Outdoor Activity forecast predicted a cloud base of 700 metres. One aspect they were spot on with however was the wind chill effect at 3000 feet. It was intensely cold. 

Lord Byron was half Scottish and spent his youth in rural Aberdeenshire. The poem reminisces on that happy childhood, this wonderful landscape and his romantic notion of being a Jacobite clansman, even in death.