An Caisteal & Beinn a Chroin

We'd been saving these two "nearby" hills since last year for a day like today. No need to get up stupidly early and only an hour from Glasgow. So setting off from the layby at 10:30a.m. we wandered (sorry squelched) through the first soggy bit and up the path to the base of the mountain proper. A fairly regular incline leads right up onto the ridge that connects Sron Gharbh to Twistin Hill then An Caisteal herself. We were surprised to see a good couple of inches of snow at the summit and we enjoyed the first snows of the season like a couple of giggling schoolkids.
On round South Easterly the East and over some delicious rocky outcrops that weren't in the scrambling league but pleasant enough to get both hands on some rock and therefore walking pole between the teeth. After some navigation training for John we passed the two false summits, both with cairns to confuse novices in the clag, and on the the East (proper) summit in exactly the estimated time.
A steep descent Coire Erb and long muddy walk back along the River Falloch finished the day just as it got dark.

14km, 6 hours at a leisurely pace.