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This walk on tracks, paths and roads includes the most spectacular section of the Rob Roy Way, as well as some much less demanding estate tracks and 2km of quiet road.

Glen Lochan is perhaps at its best when the cloud swirls along the heather slopes, and wind rushes along the narrow hollow. This is a good, longish walk for a bad day. And if you do feel damp along Glen Almond, stop at Clach na Tiompan and consider how much worse it was in the Bronze Age.

North of the River Almond, start along the wide gravel track with SRWS (Scottish Rights of Way and Access Society) signpost for Loch Tay (14.5 mile away). After 5km, fork left passing Conichan house. In another 1km, a cairn with interpretation board marks the ruins of the Clach na Tiompan chambered cairn – no chambers survive. Just along the track, a new ‘stone circle’ or drystane sheep fank was built under Auchnafree Hill to mark the Millennium.

The Sma’ Glen seems too twisty for a glacial glen, and could be a meltwater channel. This supposes an earlier River Almond flowing north to Amulree and the River Braan. With this blocked by ice, a lake would have formed in upper Glen Almond, and overflowed to carve this gorge.