Following one of the walks described in Nan Shepherd's book, The Living Mountain, I walked around and up towards Ben MacDui and onto Cairn Gorm itself. Seeing the munros in snow was a spectacular site, and has led to a very different colour palette: deep purple-blues of shadows, the yellow tinge of sun on the snow and the vibrancy of moss on granite.
The view of the Lairig Ghru mountain pass amazed me, and has sparked quite a few new paintings based on the drawings I made there. Looking down the steep side, it's interesting to know how crucial this mountain pass once was for transport of goods, livestock and people, and difficult to imagine those journeys taking place today.