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A fence and wall run up from the loch corner in a grassy hollow. At the top of the hollow, head up onto the ridgeline on the left, Rig of Loch Enoch. A small path follows the crest of this southwest, all the way to Buchan Hill.

A small preliminary cairn is actually the 493m high point, with the main cairn 300 metres further on. The summit ridge bends right, southwest, to a final cairn.

Slant down southwest. The upper slope of Buchan Hill has low crags called Black Gairy. The southwest direction from the summit leads into a wide grassy gap, with a rough path continuing below.

Continue slanting southwest, towards Buchan Burn. After some very rough ground near the burn, it may be possible to cross the burn to a well-used path on the western bank, and this leads down to the car park. Alternatively, if the stream is in spate, head straight downhill towards Buchan house to rejoin the track there and head up right to the car park.

WALK 7

Rhinns of the Kells

Start/Finish Forrest Lodge (NX 552 863) Distance 29km (18 miles) Ascent 1300m (4400ft) Approx time 9½hrs Terrain Forest tracks; a small amount of rough, tussocky ground; hill ridges and small paths Max altitude Corserine, 814m Maps Landranger 77 (Dalmellington); Explorer 318 (Galloway N) Parking Arrive along Forrest Road and go over a stone bridge with 2 ton weight limit to a car park on the left Variant Direct to Corserine then following southern half of ridgeline – 17.5km (11 miles) with 950m (3100ft) of ascent (about 6¼hrs)

The Rhinns of the Kells is the Southern Uplands’ finest ridgeline. On the left it drops steep and craggy to the Glenkens; on the right it looks into the rugged Galloway heartland. And each of its four hills has its own character – narrow, stony Carlin’s Cairn; huge, sprawling Corserine; the rocky ridgeline of Millfire; and the rough lump of Meikle Millyea.