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This is lovely walk, and others have described it very well, with good pictures. This note is just to warn you that there's a hydro scheme under construction at the outflow of Loch Eilde Mor.
The bridge has been removed, and you cannot cross the new dam. The river crossing is easy in dry-ish conditions but might be hard in spate.
The hardest bit is getting across the new hydro pipe, plastic and slippy, and in a deep, soft-sided trench. Getting on top of it is easy but it's a long way down off the top.
There's a way under it if you walk along it towards the dam, but be careful, as you have to climb over loose boulders and wriggle through a gap.
As an afterthought
, the contractors have bulldozed a pile of soft wet spoil to nicely block the end of the path.
Once past all of that, the route onwards is easy. I thought the stalkers path was pretty good really. It's easy to dodge the wet bits, and in much better condition compared with many of the horror shows on some Munros.
All in all, you might find it more pleasant to go up the Ciaran path to the Blackwater dam and take the hill path on that side.