Late night, late start, luckily set off for an anticlockwise run round this 10 mile 2900' feet of ascent run round Glen Finlas. Lucky? you get lost quicker this way, the clockwise route follows a fence until you are 4 or 5 miles away from the lochside road, getting lost there could be more of an issue.
No snow in the Glen but after about 40 or so minutes reached what might have been the 1st top, Creachin Hill, in snow, cloud, and visibility down to about 50 yards. Ground featurless due to the snow which pretty much merged with the sky.
Not too risky as this part of the moor is only a mile or two from lower ground in any direction except the planned route. With this in mind tried the "keep going up" route finding method but it didnt work as I couldn't see the next hill and it didn't seem like I was getting anywhere.
After about 20 mins of wandering through giant peat hags got the compass out. Figured out east should take me back towards Loch Lomond and after another 10 minutes or so started to descend and soon dropped below the cloud and snowline.
Came out on the wrong side of the hill, obviously disorientated by the hags and I was not where I should have been. Picked up a trod half way down the hill and contoured back round to Glen Finlas and on up towards the dam, dropped down to the lochside, crossed the dam and contoured back down towards the loch. All in about 2 1/2 hours.
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