Ronald Turnbull walks right round Buachaille Etive Beag

MY DAUGHTER emails that she’s coming up to the Highlands with a friend.

The bunkhouse at Bridge of Orchy seems handy for the Caledonian Sleeper, and could I please provide some mountains.

Well yes. The Highlands does have some of those.

The problem is, the cloud’s lurking at the 600m level. How to provide them a mountain day without going up any mountains?

This is where the walk around Buachaille Etive Beag comes in. Two ancient rights of way, through two high passes, lead from the A82 to Glen Etive and back again. We parked up and headed into the first of