Description

Having sat down with compass and two maps and my pipe going, to make sure I was not jumping hastily at a wrong conclusion, I turned sharp left or westwards along the edge of the drop on my right and pushed up another slope, with neither stakes nor track to guide me, to the summit point marked 3014 feet on both maps. Here I saw two ptarmigan (the first I had ever seen) and pushed on north-west by compass to the watershed. It was now 4.30 p.m. and at last I saw Loch Callater some two or three miles away