The mountains of Arran: a landscape of wonder within reach

"My place above every other place to be on your high shoulder-blades striving with your rocky great grey throat" The Cuillin, Sorley MacLean The beginnings play out the familiar rhythms of the start to a day in the mountains. Shaking off car park lethargy with a steep - initially conifer-shrouded - ascent, cresting to a suddenly wide-screen terrain, taking in the always wonder-capturing first vista with heavy breath then a washing-over of the stoic reserves required for the upward progr…