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Mountain walks don’t have to be severe and strenuous, but they are supposed to be fun; and for me, up and down Aonach Mor under the ski tows isn’t. But there’s a splendid side-ridge where instead of looking up at dangling metalwork you look down from a great height on deer. Cul Choire is the Back Corrie, a name that invites any adventurous hill-goer.

Aonach Mor, from the Great Glen

See map in Route 13. Start underneath the Great Glen Chairlift out left, only very slightly uphill. (On some summer weekends you can ride this first kilometre of the walk as well.) Pass a café hut and carry on contouring into the valley of Allt Choille-rais. Cross the stream and slant left up the slope beyond onto the north ridge of Tom na Sroine. Go up the ridge, which becomes more defined with drops on the right. Across the valley is the black-run area of the Nevis Range ski slopes.

Cross the hummocky top of Tom na Sroine (918m, a Munro Top) and continue south along a pleasant ridge, with big drops now on the left to Allt Coire an Eoin. Schist (grey, flaky) interchanges with Nevis outer granite (rounded lumps, pinkish where unweathered). On the right, now, you are opposite the winter climbing ground of Coire an Lochan.