Buachaille Etive Beag

[Mantog]

Hi

I followed a route from a guide book. It shunned the normal route - up to the saddle, onto Stob Coire Raineach, over to Stob Dubh then back down same path . Instead it suggested you stay down in the valley for longer and come up the shoulder of Stob Dubh (on a map you can see where the contours aren't quite so harsh)., go along ridge to the other peak then descend down the 'orthodox' path. Anyways...we missed the path it seems, came too far round and ended up cutting up the side of Stob Dubh which was not very pleasant. Has anyone done this route and managed to find a path or is just a 'pick your own route' affair?

Bob

[BobMcBob]

I think I came down the way your book suggested going up. From the top there's a semblance of a path for a couple of hundred feet but I soon lost it and picked my own way.

I've been led astray by guidebooks many times, but I've no aversion to choosing my own route anyway