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Here, at a cairn, the faint path divides. Ahead up to Craignairny takes in a fine view of Loch Enoch, but simpler is to take the path slanting up to the right, northeast. After 800 metres it fades away on the complicated knolly plateau. Keep ahead, to the plateau’s eastern corner, to find the cairned high point of Dungeon Hill.

Descend northwest, over complex ground; but even in mist Mullwarchar is a nice large target to aim for. Pass through the wide col northeast of Loch Enoch and take the grassy slopes of Mullwarchar to its top.

Merrick from the granite slabs of Mullwarchar

In the 1980s Mullwarchar was mooted as a storage point for high level nuclear waste, to be sealed for millions of years in holes drilled deep into its granite lump. Doing anything at all with nuclear waste is a sure-fire vote loser for any party, and the radioactive waste still sits in an evil heap at Sellafield in Cumbria for future generations to deal with.

Descend southwest to cross the outflow of Loch Enoch. A small wet path leads along the loch’s west shore, rising a little above it to arrive just above its southwest corner. Walkers on the ‘Three lochs’ short-cut, as well as those diverting from ssss1, join at this point.