Actually, it was lots of fun. John and Paula were out for a bit of navigation practice for their impending Mountain Marathon debut, and I was tagging around for fun, pretending (unsuccessfully) that I knew a bit about hill navigation. We headed off to the top of Loch Lomond to meander round Meall an Fhudair (764m) using an old LAMM map with some controls shown on it. Once on the hill proper there was tons of snow, making progress slow but fun, gaining the ridge via a steep gully that provided some hairy few minutes as I kicked stepped my way up with my fell shoes. Once on top it was a case of cartoon cantering down deep snow covered slopes, finding innumerable deep hidden holes that on occasion almost swallowed us. A grand few hours, rounded off by mobile karaoke on the way home to John's classy CD of "Hits From The Pin Up Stars of the 70s and 80s".
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