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After the pleasant plateau wander, the descent is rather more rugged, with some granite boulder-fields to weave around. But at the slope foot another old track leads conveniently across the moor back to Cairnsmore farm.

Cairnsmore of Fleet, seen across the Cree estuary

Continue up the track and through a little iron gate onto the driveway towards Cairnsmore farm. Keep ahead for 1km up the estate track. At the first buildings bear right on the main track, then turn right at a small sign on a path through rhododendron and laurel. At a higher track turn left, and continue to its end above Cairnsmore farm.

Take the gate ahead, and bear right up a field to a gate at its top left corner. A clear path runs uphill through plantations. At a signed junction, keep ahead, signposted for Cairnsmore summit.

The path crosses a track (stone bench here), then emerges onto open hill and crosses a ladder stile. It runs uphill to pass through a gap in a fallen granite wall, above which it zigzags quite steeply up. As the slope eases, the path is less visible but is marked by cairns. At one of these cairns it bends left, north, passing a memorial to airmen just before the trig point and shelter cairn at Cairnsmore summit.