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You can park at Kylerhea, cross the Sound as a pedestrian passenger, walk up Kylerhea Glen to Bealach Udal, tackle the summit from there, and return to Kylerhea by way of Beinn Bhuidhe; not a prospect for the faint-hearted, but a good and satisfying round that will require between 5 and 6 hours once on the island.

The untracked ascent from Bealach Udal is initially very rough and crag-ridden, but can be eased, slightly, by setting off from a little lower down Kylerhea Glen, from the point where the road starts to descend steeply towards Kylerhea. From here you can reach the south ridge, though it is not very prominent as such, by keeping to the left of a conspicuous buttress (due south of the small lochan at NG760209, for which you should first navigate). Once round the buttress head for the south ridge and another, larger lochan at NG759220, from where you can gain the summit ridge and so the top of the hill. As you climb, you leave much of the difficult terrain behind, moving rather more easily on short turf, which comes as a fine reward for the effort lower down.