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The track bears right to cross Bynehill Burn. Turn to the right up rough grassland to a gate. At the smooth track above, turn left for 30 metres to a waymarked kissing gate onto Byne Hill.

A small path leads up Byne Hill, over outcrops of the same Benan Conglomerate. At the ridge top, the small path continues southwest to the summit of Byne Hill.

The outcrops here are of pure Trondhjemite. It’s a pink and crystalline granite, but without granite’s back speckles. When exposed in outcrops it weathers to a dull grey – you’ll see clean chunks of it along the foreshore at the walk’s end.

Up the north ridge of Grey Hill, with Byne Hill seen behind

The small path continues down southwest to a stile. Head down through a wall gate to cross a col. A stone monument, decomposed so that whatever it commemorates has fallen off, is over on the right. Ahead is a slightly rocky hummock (Mains Hill), made of massive greywacke. Cross its grassy top and continue on down through low gorse to cross a stream. Go through fallen stone sheepfolds to a gate, with a faint grass track beyond. This runs up to the right of the stream, then leads up all the way to the trig point on Grey Hill.