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4 NN 1572 7137 Top of zigzags (you have now avoided Five Finger Gully)Down path, or else:283° (just north of west), directly downhill, toNN 1467 7165 Mountain Track at foot of zigzags

Path, north, 200 metres to

NN 1474 7186 Path crosses Red Burn

Using compass alone, the bearings are:

From the summit to clear the head of Gardyloo Gully: pass to right of the observatory ruins, bearing 232° (roughly southwest) for 150 metres (roughly 100 double steps).

Thus having passed to left of the head of Gardyloo Gully: take a careful bearing 283° (slightly north of west) for 400 metres to the top of MacLean’s Steep, and the same bearing for another 500 metres to the top of the zigzags. If the zigzags are invisible (for example under fresh snow) the same bearing, which should be directly downhill, will eventually lead down steep soggy grass into the lower hollow of the Red Burn.

Bearings are magnetic 2016: subtract 1° for every six years after 2016.

ROUTE 8

Carn Mor Dearg Arête

Start/FinishNorth Face car park at Torlundy (NN 145 763)Distance16.5km/10½ miles (up and down)Total ascent1500m/4900ftTime8hrTerrainHill paths and a bouldery arêteMax altitudeBen Nevis 1344mAccessAt Torlundy 3km northeast from Fort William, turn right off A82, signed ‘North Face Car Park’. Cross a narrow railway bridge, then turn right onto a track to the car park.

The Pony Path, now renamed the ‘Mountain Track’, misses out all the exciting side of the mountain. The route by Carn Mor Dearg (‘carn more jerrack’, big red stonepile) and its arête gives all the excitement you want (and if there’s a wind or some old snow, rather more excitement than that). It’s more of a clamber than a scramble, over a ridge of granite blocks. The slopes falling either side are steep, and ahead is the whole of the magnificent northern crag. Or else it’s misty, which is even more atmospheric.