An easy going but increasingly wet walk combining the fascinating iron age brochs of Glen Beag with the wild open moorland at the head of the glen.
The walk follows the road up the glen and then onto, sometimes muddy, landrover track up onto the moor.
Infrequent bus service to Arnisdale, get off at Glen Beag turning.
Dùn Telve Broch.
Park near the Dùn Telve broch having passed through the village of Glenelg and turned left up Gleann Beag. Both the iron-age brochs are well worth exploring. Much remains of the sturdy fortress in which it is thought people lived on a wooden suspended gallery with a central opening for light and smoke to pass. They are well positioned to see the arrival of attackers from the sea and get their animals and people behind the safety of the double walls.
Follow the road up the glen a short way to Dùn Troddan broch, possibly even more impressive than the last one. Once you have explored this broch continue until the end of the public road at a farmhouse. Go through the gateway to the right of the farmhouse and follow a track straight ahead. The track fords a stream and then climbs uphill, passing the remains of a third broch, Dùn Grugaig, on the right.
The track continues to follow the glen which narrows with pretty, native woodland in parts. Continue on the track passing underneath electricity pylons carrying electricity to Skye from the Tomdoun hydro station. The track stays close to the river for a while. The track then branches in two - follow the left hand branch signed for Glenelg and pass through a farm gate.
Follow the track as it climbs gently onto the open moorland. At the top of therise you can see Loch Iain Mhic Aonghairs to the left. There is a real sense of being in the middle of a wilderness even though the route follows a landrover track. You can either return from this point or continue on a rough and very boggy path for a further kilometre downhill to the bothy at Suardalan. The bothy is maintained by volunteers from the Mountain Bothy Association; please help by carrying out any rubbish you find here, and always follow the bothy code when visiting. The return is by the same route.
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