There are five Munros which are normally climbed from Glen Etive and at this point I hadn't climbed any of them. What's more, Ruth still had two of them to do, the closest Munros to Edinburgh that she still hadn't done. So we set off at 7 in the morning under cloudy skies but confident of a sunny day ahead and drove up to Glen Etive. We were held up at one point behind a Highway Maintenance truck, and then at roadworks on the Ba Bridge, but managed to get to the bottom of Glen Etive in about 2 hours 40 minutes. The road down Glen Etive incidentally could have benefitted from plenty of Highway Maintenance itself, but further down it looked like it had all been resurfaced not too long ago. There were quite a few cars already at the starting point but we managed to squeeze in nearby and were off walking by ten o'clock.

Setting off - Ruth and the car