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Turn away from the road, through the gate, and onto a steadily rising track, which until 1823 was the main road linking Sleat with the rest of Skye.

The track climbs initially through trees, and then through a more open landscape to a gate at a bend, where the route swings left to pass a convenient bench with a fabulous view across the Sound of Sleat. Onward the track reaches a gate close by Armadale Home Farm. Immediately through the gate bear right and pass in front of the farm to gain a track (now the Blue Trail) for Armadale Hill. With improving views across to the mainland, the path eventually forks just after a bridge.

Turn right here into a plantation, a little gloomy but short-lived, and soon reach a gate onto open moorland. The small pond on the right was built to supply waterpower for farm machinery.

Onward, a broad track, muddy in places, heads straight for the hill ahead; this is Armadale Hill (Cnoc Armadail), a small outlier of the marginally higher Cnoc an Sgùmain to the south-west. You can leave the track as you reach the base of the hill, and walk easily up to the summit. The view is stunning, taking in the Black and Red Cuillin, the distant hills of Torridon, the mainland from Lochalsh to Knoydart.