Autumn has come and gone and winter is now truly with us. It is -2C outside this morning, with a dusting of snow covering the ground. But, the sun is shining making for a lovely day as it did yesterday... Aware that both nearby ski resorts were opening this weekend , my friend Ed and I decided yesterday would be a good day for a long high level walk  and so with an early start we headed off up in to the  mountains beside Loch Lochy, 40 mins drive from Hazelgrove. After a long hard walk in we followed a ridge high up on to a plateau. As we asended it became clear that an awful lot of precipitation had fallen as snow here over the past week and the last 200m on to the plateau were hard work as we sunk in places up to our thighs in snow and could only scramble slowly upwards as a result. However, the effort was worth it... the views from the top were fantastic, the sun was shining and the snow sparkled. We could see Ben Nevis, Glen Affric, Loch Ness such was the visibility. But, with a slight wind blowing up spindrift and inducing wind chill, it was not a place to hang around and we kept up a good pace before descending back down. Hopefully, we will have a few more days like this over winter and can revisit the area and do some more peaks because, for the keen  mountain walker this really is a wonderful area to visit!