Càrn Eige

From the car park about 200 m east of Chisholm Bridge near the head of Loch Beinn a' Mheadhoin, a constructed path joins the hydro track up the east side of the Abhainn Gleann nam Fiadh. Beyond a scattered pinewood and a hydro dam it becomes a rough, often very boggy path crossing several streams; the Allt Toll Easa can be impassable in spate. Stay on the glen path to below Coire Mhic Fhearchair, take the higher right fork (indistinct at the Allt Coire Mhic Fhearchair crossing) and zigzag up to the hanging plateau and the bealach between Sròn Garbh and An Leth-chreag, with a sudden view of Loch Mullardoch. Turn left up the steep, rocky crest of Sròn Garbh on a man-made rock staircase, the remains of an old stalking path (a looser path lies to the left). The ridge is straightforward at first, but after Stob Coire Dhomhnuill it breaks into jagged pinnacles: scramblers can traverse them, walkers take the bypass path, first on the right then on the left. A slight rise over Stob a' Choire Dhomhain and a wide bealach lead to the summit, a trig point inside a wind-shelter cairn. Most walkers continue to Màm Sodhail (1,181 m), optionally after an out-and-back to remote Beinn Fhionnlaidh via the Bealach Beag (832 m), then follow the narrow grassy ESE ridge over Mullach Cadha Rainich to Sgùrr na Lapaich, descend its steep SE ridge to a track down to Loch Affric below Affric Lodge, and walk the road about 1.6 km back to Chisholm Bridge. In bad weather, escape from Màm Sodhail by the zigzag path down Coire Leachavie to the Loch Affric path.