Quote Originally Posted by Mud View Post
Like this?

Blue is the stony path, green the invisible right-of-way, red your suggestion?
In principle yes: in practice it probably is not quite as far south as your map suggests.


Take a look at dalehead from high spy & what you see are distinct bands right to left: the walkers path down the RHside(north), a rock band, a gully "the right of way you mention" which goes but is not very nice at all! another smaller rock band, a second gully, then the biggest area of rocky ground of all. And the route takes you just to the left of that last rock band.

But ask swoop and sunnyside what they thought:

It is fast running all the way down, and the steepest section really is less than 200 feet still on good grass, and without trying I really did get down in only 6 mins or so to the back of the tarn, so racing would have been quicker still

If I find a photo, I will post it.