Thanks Chris; I know the walk out wasn't desperately long by Scottish standards - certainly not as much of a slog as our walk up to Loch Etchachan the next day - but it felt pretty hard work at the time! As for the Byron - well, I have no doubt it makes me sound nauseatingly pretentious, but I might...

Nice - looks like a pretty quiet approach! Were the stream crossings easy going or were you thigh deep?

Following a year when hillwalking aspirations have largely been frustrated by the pandemic, I had booked to spend a week striding (I hoped) across the granite of the Cairngorms with Ed, an old friend from university, starting with a traverse of the White Mounth Munros, which would include (at least ...