This is the most exposed stage, as you will be crossing Rannoch Moor. It starts with a muddy woodland and moorland climb over Mam Carraigh, but then from Victoria Bridge near to the Inveroran Hotel, you will be back on the old military road with a reasonable surface rising to 350m on the moor. The first part of the moor is called the Black Mount, the name which it probably gets from the colour of the peat and the lochans. This is a wonderful, remote and rugged place to be, but exceptionally hostile in bad weather. There is no shelter upon Rannoch, before White Corries or Kingshouse, and accommodation is generally limited to the latter.