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Ben Vorlich summit, from the east top

The track gives comfortable walking, after 1km joining a somewhat more used one that arrives over a bridge from the right. The track passes over the spur of Monadh Odhar, then drops to the farm passed on the outward walk.

Head through the white gate and down the driveway track. Once across the river bridge, take a gate on the left. If it’s got dark, you can just walk back along the road. A fishermen’s path runs through riverside meadows: where it passes under powerlines,it is marked with yellow noticeboards about not flourishing one’s rod overhead.

As the bank steepens, the path is just above the river. Pass along more level meadows, then keep above another steep banking above the river. Just beyond this, a footbridge over a ditch leads to a gate into the church car park.

ROUTE 2

Beinn Dearg

Start/finishGlenartney church car park NN711161Distance13.5km/8.5 milesAscent750m/2500ftApprox time5hrMax altitudeBeinn Dearg 706mTerrainPathless grassy ridge; approach and final descent on rough tussocky grassland

Switzerland has its röstigrabe, east of which one eats pan-fried potatoes and speaks German. Perthshire has its heatherline, east of which one struggles in knee-scratching shrubbery and speaks Anglo-Saxon swearwords. The green ridge of Beinn Dearg is all the more enjoyable when you look across Allt Glas to the brown twigs of Ben Halton on the other side of the divide.