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But for the very finest hills I have left the choice to you. The Grey Corries, the Mamores, and the Black Mount; Bidean and Ben Cruachan: these are hills you will want to ascend lots of times, by many different routes, or ranges where only you can decide how much to do, once you’re up. For these I have given a summit summary, with the standard route and the adventure around the back, the slightly rocky scramble and the long, long walk in from somewhere else altogether.

Many of the mountain routes start off along one of the low or mid-level ones. Accordingly, the starts of high-level routes are marked (in green) on the 1:50,000 mapping of the lower ones.

At the start of each walk there is a route information box that gives the start and finish point, distance, ascent, approximate time require to complete the route, the maximum altitude gained and an indication of the terrain involved. There is an icon showing the type of route: low-level, mid-level, mountain or trek. The difficulty indicators are explained in the panel below. The length indicators correspond to the approximate times given in the route information box: one square is up to 4 hours, two squares up to 6 hours, with the full five squares for walks of over 10 hours – those could also be enjoyed over two days using a tent or bothy. The approximate times are based on 1 hour for 4 horizontal km or for 400m of height gained, with extra time where the ground is particularly steep or rough. They’ll be about right, including brief snack stops, for a moderately paced party. (Note there are no length indicators in the summit summary routes as they are uphill only.)