I left my car in the car park at Drumnadrochit and briefly walked south on the A82 then onto the Affric/Kintail Way later leaving it and following tracks through the forest to the north and west of Craig Mony. I crossed a field via a little used path and entered another section of the wood where I joined a forest track that ran south and south-west below Cnoc a’ Bhuachaille gaining some height.
At a junction of tracks, NH481282 I walked north-east along what appeared to be a newish track to its high point, NH485267, just below Cnoc a’ Bhuachaille, where I wandered through the trees to locate a path that led to the cairn on the summit of this Tump.
I continued along this path, which appeared to be more of a mountain bike trail, and returned to the junction of tracks and descended south-west towards Glen Coiltie. Forest operations were in progress but not at the precise time of my visit as there appeared to be a mechanical problem with a vehicle on the back of a lorry.
The forest tracks had been upgraded and after a slight incline I came to a couple of new gates in a deer fence. A bit beyond the pedestrian gate I left this upgraded track and headed along a little used track which was a bit wet in places and overgrown with heather. I continued along it to south of Carn Macsna and at NH454267 left this track and climbed through heather and rough tussocky ground crossing a deer fence. I passed Carn Bhad Choillidh to the west then headed to the summit of the Tump, Carn Macsna, which was marked by a trig point.
The descent south-east was initially on a quad vehicle trail then I walked round the east side of Carn Bhad Choillidh across rough vegetation and lower down through some young trees to reach the vehicle track just west of the deer gates. Beyond them I took the vehicle track to the right which took me through Glen Coiltie and back to Drumnadrochit.
- Time taken – 6.75 hours.
- Distance – 18.5 kilometres.
- Height climbed – 725 metres.