Our home for a few days - Craiglea Cottage in Fort William.
On a showery day, Sue and I headed towards Glen Quoich so that she could climb Gleouraich and Spidean Mialach.
There's a parking spot just next to where the stalkers path up Gleouraich starts through a tangle of vegetation.
Sue set off in the rain, and after a while I went for a stroll along the road, reaching the Glen Quoich bridge after 2 km. I passed lots of bright yellow gorse and was followed by a black redstart at one point.
Major roadworks are in progress here. Luckily they don't work on Sundays, so we avoided delays.
There's a good view from the bridge, down Glen Quoich to Alltbeithe and the South Kintail ridge.
(Though the actual ridge was doused in cloud.)
The western ramparts of Sue's hill were clear, though I suspect the top was in cloud.
A short way along the Glen I turned around and headed back towards the bridge, not wanting to be late for Sue. Here's the view back from my furthest point along the Alltbeithe road.
Back at the bridge, there's a friendly sign broadcasting onward paths from this point.
The path does however suffer, a few metres further on, from a locked gate and an obnoxious sign. Walkers certainly don't require authorisation to pass along this ancient route.
A few metres before the locked gate and it seems that the road to Kinloch Hourn, currently closed to traffic, is being prepared for something big.
The weather cleared as I found my way back to the car.
Here's evidence of my modest day out - a 'there and back' walk of 7.5 km with 120 metres ascent, taking rather less than two hours.
Sue was back down by 3:30, having set off into the rain at 10:30. She volunteered a 'snow report'.
