Ben Vane

Here is the way up Ben Vane, one of the "Arrochar Alps" which lie to the west of Loch Lomond. It's just over 3000 feet so it's one of the smaller munros, but it's a great walk with steep paths, rocky bits to be clambered over and a gully to be climbed, ( choice of at least two! ), so you can pretend you're a real mountaineer, before the summit is reached.

Starting at Inveruglas Visitor Centre off the A82 Loch Lomondside road, we walk south past the power station and turn right up the private road to Loch Sloy. We leave this road at a left branch to go over a large bridge which after a few hundred yards leads to a small bridge. Here a path starts which we follow up to Ben Vane's south-east ridge. Here is the slide show..........

The "bad step" is just a big boulder that was chest high to me and quite smooth. Taller people won't be bothered by it. The gully above it is a rocky staircase, similar to the alternative gully I used to ascend. Oddly enough, the "bad step" boulder proves no problem on the way down!

Incidently, the video has a deliberate mistake....Ben Ime and Ben Narnain are not "Ben"s at all.....they're "Beinn"s !