Glen Striddle, Glen Luss

Set off early to beat the high winds forecast for the afternoon, plan was Beinn Dubh, Mid Hill, Coillie Eughain Hill, Started up Beinn Dubh to the rattle of woodpeckers and further up skylarks above. Wind ok as it was a helping from behind, steady no gusts. Hard work on ground soggy from snowmelt. Thoughts of turning back disappeared on the run round to Mid Hill, ran into the glen and onto the tarmac for a few hundred yards crossing a swollen raging Luss water before the slow trudge up CE Hills steep pathless sides to it's peat hagged top, clouds scudding by as the wind strengthened. Ran down over the paps, a faint path helping to avoid the worst of the tussocks and bogs towards the bottom, through the trees the woodpeckers rattling my return.