On Golden Pap or Eccentrica* here I am

It does not get much better than this - a whole mountain range to myself for the day - The Paps of Jura - no other tourists in the hotel, no other cars in the hikers car park and just one set of other tracks in the mud (a few days old - looked like Walsh fell running shoes)

Beinn An Or (Golden Mountain) is on the right - in cloud

It was 3 degrees on top - but with winds at over 50mph I was not staying long (wind chill -6 or -15, depending on which calculator you believe)

Looking South toward Beinn a' Chaolais

East to Small Isles Bay

North into total wilderness - no roads, no settlements, just moorland and 5000 red deer

Islay in the background - in the foreground Sgriob na Cailliche (track of the old woman) the two lines of boulders were deposited under ice sheets - and not a disused mineral tramway as I first thought

Beinn Shiantaidh

If the views were not enough there was a reward waiting for me back at the Jura Hotel:

A glass of 16 yo Jura Malt Whisky

13 different whiskies - and all Jura and all from 10m across the road

*It's a Hitchhikers reference: http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Eccentrica_Gallumbits Pap is Viking for breast.