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After 1km downhill, the track levels and bends right (east). Turn down left, between clear-fell (right) and mature trees soon for felling (left), to Halfmark Burn. Turn briefly downstream to crossbelow the Cleugh of Alraith (small gorge), and turn back upstream on a rough quad-bike track for 300 metres to the head of the cleugh, with a small waterfall.

Turn uphill, over very rough grassland, to gain the moorland crest, where the going is more comfortable. Cross a slight rise at the 350m contour, then head up the face of Cairnsgarroch, spotted with boulders.Approaching the summit, reach a cairn (Shepherd’s Cairn) and wall, with Cairnsgarroch summit cairn just beyond.

Follow the wall, with path alongside, down across a wide col, and quite steeply up Meaul. The wall ends 70 metres northeast of Meaul trig point.

A faint quad-bike path (and a small people-path) runs south along most of the following ridgeline to Meikle Millyea. Leave Meaul roughly southwest, through a long col with a couple of pools, and then go up south, just left of the true crest, onto the spur above Goat Craigs. The well-defined stony ridgeline runs southwest, then south with drops to the left, to the large and ancient cairn on Carlin’s Cairn.