Jon Metcalf: So simple with the track from the north mapped at 1:25000, but just abysmal if you are foolish enough to attempt this from the east. Horizontal trees scour your eyeballs as the gear is ripped from your back each tortuous metre. Lay on the heather with tears of joy on breaking out into the summit clearing after what felt like several weeks of a sherpa campaign on this.
Alan Dawson: I sympathise, having been that way myself and had the stick plucked from my rucksack, never to be seen again, but I've been back (for Chris Crocker's 600th) and it really is a doddle from the north (as you know by now). It was my 999th, and I nearly had an emergency call-out.
Donald Shiach: We followed the route suggested by Andrew Dempster, and were suitably grateful to him for pointing out a (once) fine zigzag path taking us through the trees - and he's right, the view is exceptional. But his suggestion for the downhill leg was more problematic. He suggests there are numerous breaks in the trees - and there are, you just can't see them from above. So we had to resort to coming down backwards and then crawling under sitka when backwards progress became impossible. A few wee crags enlivened things too. When we finally hit a firebreak, it descended at an angle, meaning we had to cross a bona fide mudslide. This was early August, just a week after the Glen Ogle excitement, and we soon found out why the Perthshire folk had to be airlifted. The mud was like quicksand. We had to jump from slippery log to slimy boulder, but still took a lot of it back with us. Nice hill, shame about the spruce.
Andy Hyams: A descent south into Glen Creran from the Graham Top of Beinn Mhic na Ceisich on the way back from Fraochaidh looked feasible, as the map suggests there is only a narrow strip of forest before a track down from a hut called Seanarmhail. Don't try it - especially not at bramble time.