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The Rob Roy Way heads into Glen Lochan

Before Glenshervie Burn fork right on a smooth track, to a bridge towards Auchnafree house. Immediately across the river turn right on a track running up to left of Glenshervie Burn and below a plantation. After crossing the burn, the track rises steeply, then bends left (into Glen Shervie). At this bend leave it. The old path is round to the right but simpler is to take the steep small path ahead, rejoining the older path after 50 metres.

The path is barely more than a sheep trod, as it runs along the steep slope above the unnamed burn. It crosses the top of the stream, and runs through the striking V-slot of Glen Lochan.

A dry streambed runs through the slot, and while we may be unconvinced by the Sma’ Glen, this is surely a meltwater channel, carved by a much bigger stream than the present one, the outflow of a glacier-dammed lake in Coire a’ Chearcaill ahead.

The path dips to run along the left-hand shore of a small lochan. It crosses the outflow of an even smaller pool just below. Passing over a ruined fence, you see the gate of the original path just below. No longer following the old path line, the path becomes rugged stones and peat. It runs along the foot of the southern slope, with the valley now wide and flat-bottomed, the bed of a former lake of which only the tiny Lochan Uaine remains.