I'd long fancied completing a circuit of the four Arran Corbetts, and despite all four seasons in the course of ten hours, I stayed the course. Great late afternoon views from Beinn Tarsuinn down Glen Iorsa to Kintyre, Jura, and a smudge on the horizon that may have been the Antrim coast. The Arran trip gave the best new Marilyn of the year: a dash over to Holy Island. That ferryman at Lamlash is on a nice wee earner, he makes Calmac look cheap. The dash up to Mullach Mor was achieved in 45 minutes, a brisk walk, never quite a run. Reason for the haste was the first ferry over being at 10am and the break in the hourly service between 12 and 2. So for the 13:50 Calmac ferry to Ardrossan, there's a two-hour window to get up, down and back to Lamlash. There were no restrictions on access (August 2000). You get met off the boat and a member of the community explains where the footpaths are. However, there was no attempt to prevent access to the hill, and once on the good path up there are signs and a stile helpfully placed.
