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Start at the Visitor Centre. At the downstream end of the car park cross the footbridge signed for Ben Nevis and turn upstream, but where the Mountain Track turns off left, continue along the riverside. In 1.5km you reach the footbridge to Glen Nevis youth hostel. Don’t cross it, but turn up left on the rebuilt path that climbs steeply beside a plantation to join the Mountain Track.

Turn right, uphill. The wide, well-built track slants up the side of Meall an t-Suidhe, with a couple of zigzags and crossing two little aluminium footbridges, into the hollow of the lower Red Burn. At the top of this it makes a zigzag to the left to arrive on the halfway plateau above Lochan Meall an t-Suidhe.

The wide path slants uphill northeast above the lochan. After 400 metres, the path divides: here walkers for Ben Nevis summit would make a sharp right turn. But keep ahead on a smooth rebuilt path. As it bends down left towards the outflow of Lochan Meall an t-Suidhe, fork off right on a faint, unbuilt path. This bends around a spur, and becomes rugged as it contours into the valley of Allt a’ Mhuilinn. (In winter, note that the slope crossed here is susceptible to avalanches – check the avalanche forecast.)