2A Meall Chomraidh and 3A Leathad Mor

From the entrance to the right-of-way track at NN503565 I biked to the junction at NN493556 and climbed the easy heathery slopes of Meall Chomraidh (although some bracken on the lower slopes). Continuing on the bike there was a tricky narrow kissing gate and locked vehicle gate through the deer fence at the edge of the forest, then on a good forest road to near the railway at NN411502 where I eventually left the bike after investigating the options. The footbridge across the railway shown on the map has long gone and the ford under the railway was a raging torrent.

I walked over a large new bridge across the tributary E of the railway and then under the railway bridge alogside the river. I couldn't cross the Allt an Lochain at that point because of the volume of water, but following its S bank westwards, I found some dry boulders at NN408502 which were a safe crossing to the adjacent forest road. The road swung round N to NN403505 where a grassy forest break with a path (boggy in parts) heads W to the forest edge. Leathad Mor summit is WNW over open moorland apart from a deer fence.

It was a fast return on the bike which was mostly downhill.

(7 hours 10 mins, 7 miles walking, 17.5 miles biking, 2600’ of ascent)