Repeat of last years pre Nevis race training run. Starting at Succoth, ignore the new path to the hills, instead taking the road opposite the car park and following this until it crossed the stream protected by a crash barrier. Sharp left at the end of the crash barrier onto a narrow path, followed this up through the trees until it joins the forrest track and then turn left keeping to the forrest track ignoring the right forks until the old path is reached.
At the old path turned right to go straight up the disused railway track, at the top of the track continued straight up Narnain ignoring the path towards the Cobbler. This path picks its way up through a few crags but is generally walkable & runable with some good views as you go up.
Once on the top went past the trig point and headed left to pick up the faint path down through the boulder field, then turned right and picked up the main path down steep slopes to cross the Beallach between Narnian/Ime & the Cobbler.
From the Beallach crossed the fence at the style and then straight up Ben Ime, mostly on an easy path, a bit muddy in places. Went past the first summit as the real summit is another 100 or so yards along with a dry stane turret marking the top of the highest peak in the Arrochar Alps (the only one over 1000 metres).
Returned by the same route back down to the Beallach, at the Beallach turned left just before the fence, avoiding the swamp, and then down the steep drop into Glen Loin. There is a new rough path to the rigth of the stream and above the current tree line which takes you back to the usual forrest track for a run back to Succoth.
All in about 12 miles and around 5000' of climbing run in just under 3 1/2 hours. Cloud level less than 2 1/2 thousand feet so no views from the tops. A few pictures in the Galleria.
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