Sunday Marion took me to the Western Highlands. We hiked with an environmental studies colleague of hers, and three interns from France up Beinn Eighe (pronounced ben ee). We rock scrambled about 5k up to a hanging loch. The others pressed on to scramble up scree to the summit then walk the ridge and scramble down the steep slope to the north. I think I did well in my trainers. I wouldn't attempt scree without boots. From several vantage points we could see the Atlantic and caught a glimpse of the Isle of Skye.