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After running for 400 metres above the stream, the path turns uphill a little and contours through mature plantation. It is now wide and smooth and will remain so for the rest of the ascent. At Culsharg bothy the path turns uphill to a forest road. The bothy has recently been restored with glass windows and midgeproof door. Turn right for 50 metres, crossing a stream, to find the path continuing uphill to the right of the stream. It emerges over a carved stone marking the top of woodland to pass through a gate on open hillside and then reach the wall up the southwest flank of Benyellary. The path runs up to the right of the wall to the large cairn on Benyellary.

Here the wall and path bend left, descending around the rim of the Gloon corrie onto the well-defined ridgeline of Neive of the Spit. The path to the right of the wall follows the very brink of the corrie; the one up to the left offers additional views westwards towards the sea and Ailsa Craig. At the end of this connecting ridge the wall and path bend slightly left (north) up the summit slope of Merrick. After 200 metres the path bends right, away from the wall, to rake up the hill flank to the white-painted trig point on Merrick.