Time: 6-8 hours I always feel the spring solstice in March is a turning point, a demarcation line that signals a steady lengthening of the days and all the natural response that brings with it. It’s small wonder our pagan ancestors celebrated this event with such gusto. With Christmas and New Year behind us for another year, my thoughts naturally turn to a walk in the hills – to Stob Ban in the Grey Corries – lockdown permitting. I’ve always been aware of doing this grand little hill a disservice by tacking it onto the Grey Corries group, like some sort of addendum, for in essence Stob Ban’s a solitary Munro rising in shapely splendour between Coire Rath and the broad defile of the Lairig Leacach.