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The green ridgeline fringed with its small crags is a delight, but the approach is across damp moorland. And the last half-kilometre of the descent shows that grass too can induce swear words, when you meet it thigh-high in July or August.

Start back along the Glen Artney road for 400 metres, then bear down left on a farm track marked ‘Dogs on Leads’. Pass below the buildings at Dalchruin, then follow the riverside to a bridge.

Beinn Dearg from Glen Artney

Cross over and follow the track uphill. Where it bends left, turn off right, but at once turn up left on a smaller track. After 200 metres, as it bends left towards the hut Dalclathick, keep ahead, through rough pastureland. Pass right of two ruins to a gateway above the stream junction of Allt Coire a’ Choire. The Stream of the Corrie of the Corrie; the next valley west is Srath a’ Ghlinne, the Valley of the Glen.

A faint green track descends to ford the stream, then bends to right of a steep rise onto moorland. Ahead, it passes between two isolated iron gateposts. Keep following it north, as it provides a slightly more comfortable line. At a tall fence, a gate 50 metres to the left gives an easier place to wriggle between the wires.