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Climbing Arkle from Loch Stack via Lone

The journey south of Laxford Bridge on the A838 by the River Laxford and then Loch Stack is a lovely scenic one. At the south end of Loch Stack a track leaves the road to head back northwards by the east shores of Loch Stack, past the estate house at Aird a’ Chuilinn and on to Lone. Here the path splits with one heading east up to the Bealach na Feithe and on to Gobernuisgach in Strath More; the other north east below the southern slopes of Arkle heading for Bealach Horn between Foinaven to the north and Meall Horn to the south.

Fo Arkle and Foinaven take the Belach Horn path between an impressive split stone, through a small wood and then up steep slopes in to the hanging valley of the Allt Horn. A small hill path leaves the main one heading north up Arkle’s southern slopes just before a small side stream shortly after the Allt Horn valley has been reached above the wood. This leads high towards the southern top – however the southern slopes of Arkle are easy angled and a route could be chosen almost anywhere.