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So while there’s a bypass path on the right, it’s worth taking the small, very steep, path that zigzags up ahead to the summit of Dumgoyne. The views may not be quite so stunning as on Sgurr nan Gillean but they’re still pretty grand, and the grassy hollows are more tempting to rest among than Gillean’s black ledges.

Take a path just south of west, down a grassy spur. As it steepens, avoid a steep and eroded direct descent to the right. Keep on down the spur path a bit further, until it turns sharp right, to contour across the steep northwestern face. It crosses the eroded straight-down path, then passes below some columnar basalt, to reach gentler slopes below.

Various paths descend westwards towards GlengoyneDistillery, converging on a stile. Across this, fork left down a dip in a field between two ash trees to another stile. The path runs down a final field to the roadside just south of the distillery.

Turn right to the distillery, and cross the road to a track between whisky warehouses, the distillery’s parking area. Through a gate the track becomes a rough field track, bending right, then reaching the WHWay. Turn right – you’ve still got 10km to do to Drymen.