The eastern and southeastern slopes of Beinn Bhraggie are forested but cut by innumerable tracks, footpaths and mountain bike trails which we are steadily exploring on foot.
On Sunday we found ourselves in the area of wood seen in the centre of this satellite view which....
....is by far the densest and darkest we've come across so far and, probably, the oldest of the planted areas.
It's not only dark, it's damp, silent and oppressive, exactly the sort of woodland I least like. However, whatever my feelings, we pressed on....
....deeper and deeper into it, so deep that our location on the OS app we use no longer showed.
The path should have followed the contour through the forest and brought us out onto open moorland at the western end but, just as we thought we must at last be reaching daylight, we came across an impenetrable tangle of fallen trees; so we turned and squelched back the way we had come.
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