NN6362286255 Take the track through forestry, and then follow a riverside path to pass just left of the house. Stay on the path to enter a little burn cutting, then climb onto the bank on your right to regain the main track up the glen. This fords the river a few times. Once on the south bank the track passes (but doesn’t enter) a fenced-off area of regenerating birch woods. Beyond here is a boggy floodplain ringed by little rock peaks. Cross this (pathless and damp), heading roughly west until below the entrance to Dirc Mhor.

NN5937386642 There's no real path, but the obvious way into the Dirc follows the approximate line of a ruined old fence (look out for snares of rusty wire in the heather). Make your way along the base of the ravine, a veritable lost world. Its floor is choked with boulders and deep vegetation, and there are some impressive crags on each flank. The left side looks generally quite unassailable unless you've packed a rope, but once past the largest of the cliffs and just as you’re reaching the southern entrance to the gorge, an obvious line of weakness can be seen on the left, cutting between two crags to an old metal fencepost on the skyline. Climb steep grass and scree to this heathery shoulder. From here follow another old rusty fence line up The Fara’s turfy northwest slopes to the big summit cairn.

NN5983884365 You could go straight home from here but that would mean missing out The Fara's second highlight, the long multi-topped ridge overlooking Loch Ericht. It's an easy walk south along the broad crest, and the views just seem to get better.

NN5863581944 By point 901m you'll have got the gist of this stage, and it may be tempting to turn around here. If you've time however, continue along the crest to the final top Meall Cruadih for the best angle on the Ben Alder Forest.

NN5780080858 Retrace your steps north(ish) along the ridge. From the main summit it's possible to descend to the shore of Loch Ericht by way of the obvious forest break, but it's a steep slope followed by a lot of tarmac walking. It is probably better to descend the hill’s broad north-northeast spur. Ill defined at first, this soon develops into a ridge of sorts. Bear gradually rightwards across the boggy lower slopes to a bulldozed 4WD track (unmapped) which rejoins the Allt an t-Sluic approach track a little way east of the house.