I have just run to work on my normal commute . What a difference a day makes ! At the start ( before dawn )I could feel the ground was hard with frost- and joy of joys it wasn't raining ,sleeting or snowing. As the sun came up I could see the amount of snow that had fallen on the mountains over the last 48 hours . The steep eastern edge of Aonach Mor  was crisp  and  sculpted in  white . Then further on the magnificent north face of Ben Nevis was revealed. The summit plateau was initially shrouded in cloud which was suffused with a gorgeous pink as the sunrise illuminated it . By the time I reached Torlundy the cloud had dissipated but the towers and corries  of the Ben where delineated in brilliant yellow light. Mornings like this are joyous and compensate a thousand times over for long weeks of wet, cold , foggy weather.