Although it was not long before noon, it felt like early morning as the sun had not yet got down here - perhaps it never does at this time of year - and everything was cold and frosty
It was nice to have the signposts at every junction and not to have to dig out the map with frozen fingers
Eventually I came out into the warmth of the sunshine
- with fine views back to Ben Ledi
Continuing N , there is a sharp rise of 50m or so and a here large group of pathbuilders were at work among copious helicoptered in white bags of stone (visible in the photo). I climbed past them without difficulty but above the rise the path deteriorated into a mix of soft snow hard ice and deep bog
and I decided to head off R directly towards the summit. The mixture of soft snow and deep heather was however not that much better and progress was slow. Higher up the snow deepened and became breakable crust - and if there is anything worse than soft snow lying over deep heather, it is breakable crust lying over deep heather 
Progress became glacial. There were various other sets of footprints - I tried following one set but it didn't help - but like me they obviously had no real idea of where best to go. At the top though they all converged -- made me think of Monty Python's "100m for people with no sense of direction" - but in reverse Near the top there was less heather and progress was better. I followed some footprints East through a depression South of what I thought was the top, but I had forgotten there are two tops and coming round the corner I realised the actual high point was a 50m or so further N . When I eventually made it to the cairn the views were superb - and the panorama of hills incredibly clear. There had been absolutely no wind lower down - and here only a breath - slightly droll considering the havoc wrought further South by storm Angus.
Here are the summit views going anticlockwise:- using lines drawn on Anquet I have tried to identify the hills
I had thought about following the high ground South and descending directly to the path, but I decided that descending below "crust" level was more important as it was getting late, so I headed vaguely W along a bit of a path and then down as fast as possible. With gravity on your side this terrain is no problem.
The path-builders were still there - when completed it should rival that up Ben Vrackie - and I pushed on down. In the gloom I missed a L turn in the forest and added in an extra dog-leg but no matter it had been a superb day. This hill is a fabulous viewpoint
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Will refrain from posting embarrassing photos 
