A pleasant circuit on easy, waymarked tracks offering great views over the Cuillin and Loch Eynort, together with some sections in denser forestry.
Forestry tracks with a good surface and no bog.
Bus from Portree (seasonal check Stagecoach website).
Fairy Pools car park (charge) on right hand side of road into Glen Brittle.
Park at the Fairy Pools car park (charge) - often very busy in the summer. The route is waymarked in yellow. Go through the gate at the end of the car park onto the forestry track. At the first junction turn right, doubling back on yourself as you ascend the hill. From here there are great views of Coire na Creiche backed by the Cuillin.
Keep on this track for 2.5 kilometres until a T junction where you turn left, following the track gently uphill as it weaves through the trees. The track starts descending after only 150 metres. After another 3 kilometres there is a first glimpse of the head of Loch Eynort below.
At the next junction - with a signpost - turn left. The right branch is the Cuckoo Road which descents to Eynort (part of the Eynort circuit). Soon the track bends right and then back left. At a junction keep right; the track swings right, and then eventually back left to continue across the slope.
Eventually a picnic bench is reached with a panoramic view out over Loch Eynort. Continue along the track, eventually descending - with a first glimpse of the Cuillin ridge - to reach another signed junction,. Here turn left (still following the yellow waymarkers).
Follow the track, crossing a bridge and then ignoring a track off to the right. Continue ahead, climbing to reach the Bealach Brittle and then a picnic bench with good views over Loch Brittle and Rubh' an Dùnain. The Cuillin Ridge rises directly across Glen Brittle - a sensational sight.
Ignore a 'link route' track going off to the left, instead follow the undulating track ahead as it contours the slopes to the left. Several sections of forest have been cut allowing more unimpeded views of the ridge. At the next fork take the left hand track heading slightly uphill. Eventually you will return to the first junction of the walk, continue on the main track to the right to return to the car park.
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