We started at Catherine's, the Museum cafe, knowing that when we finished, we could stagger in and regain our spent energy with lovely home made soup and scones.
The walk started steeply, heading up the hill directly behind the old railway station, to the Stone Maze. From there we headed East, in an anti-clockwise direction, to the tiny top of Knockfarrel before descending the fields below back to the main road and over to the hamlet of Achterneed.
Picking up the forest path above the Cromartie sawmill we followed a line through the recent deforestation for the full length of the village. This led us to the beautiful Loch Kinellan, where we looped round and back to the main road again.
The last stretch of the walk took us into Blackmuir Woods and back to the Stone Maze, where we returned to our starting point, exhausted.
