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The track recrosses the stream at another dam and enters forest. Immediately bear right and follow a track down northeast for 1km to another junction. Here turn left, curving downhill. The third turning left, a mountain-bike path, short-cuts a bend in the track. At its foot continue to a horizontal track below, where you turn right to the car park at the gondola foot. The mountain bike path under the gondola is closed to walkers during biking hours, and unattractive at any time.

3 GREY CORRIES AND SPEAN BRIDGE

East along the Grey Corries ridge to Stob Coire Claurigh

Quartzite is quite different. It’s not the usual rocky grey, but a pale yellowish-white that under sunlight shows an evil gleam. It’s not lumpy but flat and smooth, and when it breaks it breaks in sharp edges and cubes. The three grey corries are flat-bottomed and green, but rise to bleak fields of blocks and boulders. The tops of the corries are fringed with crags, and the hill range that takes its name from them is a long wiggly ridge. The rock underfoot is sometimes smooth as a pavement, but the sharp edges will slash your gaiters.