As opposed to the road around the north side of Loch Tay, which is forested and filled with lakes and homes by the lakes, the road east toward Balmoral (A93) is a wild contrast. As you first get on A93 it is still forested and hilly … beautiful. But then for the next 35 miles to the town of Braemar it is starkly moonscape. The hills range up to 3,000 feet high and there are ski slopes along the way (still some snow patches), but there are very few trees; just heather and scrub grass … and the ever present SHEEP. For a 10 mile piece of the road the sheep are not fenced and allowed to wander across the road so you have to go pretty slow around the winding curves to be sure not to hit one of the critters.