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The Tarmachans from Killin

The ridge path heads south, then bends southwest along the knolly ridgeline. That ridgeline is decorated with a couple of pools down on the right, and decorated still more by the pointy summit ahead – Meall Garbh. The little peak is reached by the well-defined path zigzagging up. From Meall Garbh the gently angled but well-formed south ridge carries a little path clearly used as a descent off the ridge – avoiding both the charming ridgelet and the eroded rocky step ahead.

Behind Meall Garbh, the path follows a short narrow ridgeline with bare rock to scramble over. Descend the still quite sharp crest, until the final drop to the col. This drop is steep, on eroded bare rock in a fairly exposed situation. Clean rock is usually preferable to steep grass. But in wet snow conditions, one may prefer the steep grass slope immediately round to the right, descending northwest from the top of the steep section.

The path continues weaving around knolls of grass and rock, then heads to the right out of a col to bypass another steep section. From the next top, Beinn nan Eachan, the path descends northwest, before swinging left below steep ground to a narrow col. This leads southwest for the short ascent to Creag na Caillich.