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Shortcut via Cnapan Breaca

For those not including Barkeval, a more distinct path skirts around the eastern side of the corrie as it climbs up to the shoulder of the Cnapan Breaca. Thereafter the path fades, but it is straightforward to climb south-south-west from here to the bealach below Hallival. This route provides no great advantage over climbing directly to the bealach.

From the bealach climb 110m north-west to the first cairn (575m) on the summit ridge of Barkeval. The summit proper is over 600 metres west beyond the first cairn. Continue west, passing around a couple of weathered basalt outcrops and pick up a vague path to the summit cairn (591m). Finding the summit can be tricky in poor visibility.

The superlative views south and south-east on to the main peaks of the Rum Cuillin, towering over the Atlantic Corrie, are reason enough to include Barkeval in the traverse. In clear conditions there are fine views south-west down Glen Harris, north-west to the rounded granite hills of Sròn an t-Saighdeir, Orval, Ard Nev and Fionchra and north to the Cuillin of Skye.