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This wide, smooth timber track runs roughly northeast, then north under the minor crags of Craigmaharb, and then northwest. After a side-track on the left (signed ‘Mykola Lysenko Road’) the main track swings north. Mykola Lysenko was a Ukranian musician. It passes the crumbling shepherd’s house Darnaw in woods to the left, and then bends northwest. There’s a minor side-track on the right, and in another 250 metres the track bends left again. Go on for just 170 metres to turn right down a forest ride just west of north to Polmaddy Burn.

Cross the burn and head to the corner of the open ground around the former Shiel of Castlemaddy bothy. Little used, sometimes abused, and becoming unsafe, the bothy was demolished in 2011. Pass through a broken wall to the masonry cairn commemorating the bothy demolition. A grassed-over track runs west, then uphill beside a wall and stream (it’s blocked by fallen timber in places) to a forest track. Turn right for 300 metres, then go back sharp left. The forest track runs north through a col west of Craigenwallie, then downhill roughly northeast.