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Rejoin the track, and follow it west for 500 metres to an even more imposing cairn above Loch Turret. The track now runs north across the top of the slope above the loch. It slants down to cross a stream, rises around a spur, then dips into a second stream hollow. After a first small stream, a peaty short-cut path lets you contour forward to rejoin the track. It now fords Gilbert’s Burn (alongside remains of a bridge).

Turn up the stream’s grassy banks, slightly west of north. In the peaty bog at the stream top, don’t go as far as a decaying fence ahead, but turn up left (northwest) over short heather to the summit cairn of Auchnafree Hill. Those who say Corbetts are just as good as Munros should compare flat, featureless Auchnafree with craggy Chonzie ahead. A more imposing cairn with views is 100 metres southwest.

The route from Moine Beag up the steep end of Biorach a’ Mheannain

From the main summit head northwest over short heather, joining the decayed posts of the former fence. The fenceline has a very small path, down just to the left (west) of a peaty col, then up the slope of the grassy transverse hillock A’ Chairidh. From its top descend grassy slopes northwest to confront the peaty col Moine Bheag and the steep nose of Biorach a’ Mheannain. As an alternative to Biorach’s steep nose, or in descent, less steep slopes are to the right, north.