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Slabby granite below Meall Tarsuinn (Route 76)

On the treks and through routes, I’ve used the same calculation of 4km per hour for the ‘going time’. These walks can sometimes be done as day walks with a light pack. When done with a load, the calculated time should be considered to exclude lunch and other stops. The length in days supposes 8 hours of actual walking.

Where a bus or train can be used to link the two ends of a linear route, or to go up one route and come down another, I’ve noted this at the routes concerned. Other public transport information is in ssss1.

In old numbers, 600ft was a vertical distance, while 200yds was horizontal. I’ve used a similar convention, so that 600m is an altitude or height gain, while 600 metres is along the ground. I use ‘track’ (rather than ‘path’) for a way wide enough for a tractor or Landrover; the exception here is the Mountain Track on Ben Nevis, as this new name for the Pony Path appears on many maps and leaflets.

Finally, the ‘standard route’ up a hill is the convenient and well-trodden one featured in guidebooks like Steve Kew’s Walking the Munros. Thus the Mountain Track is the ‘standard route’ up Ben Nevis. The ranger for Blackmount has determined that 90 per cent of walkers would be content to be restricted to such routes and no others. If that figure drops as a result of this book, the Blackmount ranger may not like it – but I shall be very pleased.