[1] From the community centre at Timsgearraidh (NB057344), walk up the road to the small junction and turn L by the Eireastadh road sign. This is a quiet road that drills north to the remote Aird peninsula.

[2] After half a mile, turn R up the paved track towards the clutter of telecommunications infrastructure on the summit of Forsnabhal. Go through a gate and wind your way steadily uphill, quite steeply towards the end. The views in each direction become ever more striking as you ascend.

[3] At the summit, the panorama is completed with views east towards the rugged uninhabited island of Little Bernera, and behind that the outline of the coast of Lewis. Descending the hill towards Bhaltos requires a little navigation, but you're aiming for a quarry track about a mile away (NB067367). In mist, you may want to take a compass bearing. A new metre-high fence has been put up on the lower, eastern flanks of Forsnabhal; there's no gate, but you can climb over it clearly enough using the many boulders that rise up from the ground. Then it's a case of striking out over open moorland, through the low valley and by a burn until you reach the track.

[4] Turn R on the undulating track and follow it south-east. You pass lonely Loch Mor, where there is a marooned islet colonised by common terns, then the hidden, smaller Loch Beag. Oddly, the walk can now feel more like a wild, moorland walk set deep in the Highlands, far from the sea. Then, the track twists around a hairpin bend to reveal glorious Clibhe beach, far below, half a mile long and pummelled by rollers from the Atlantic. The track drops down towards the beach. Far up on the R-hand corner of this delightful picture is a dramatically perched cemetery. Like so many graveyards on the Outer Hebrides, it seems to all but punch out into thin air above the ocean.

[5] The track meets the quiet road that runs around the Bhaltos peninsula. Turn R to pass Loch Sgailleir, long and thin, its inky waters coloured by peat drained off the surrounding steep hills. Continue on this road until you reach Loch Miabhaig on your L.

[6] Just by a triangular sign for a cattle grid, there are what appear to be steep goat tracks uphill on your R. Follow these and, very quickly, the land levels off and you are walking along the top of Bhaltos Glen. Keep the fence close to your R, as the edge of the glen cuts in from time to time.

[7] The path gently descends to a gate, where the community centre comes into view. Go through the gate, with the fence now on your L, and continue ahead. Shortly afterwards, at another gate, cross the road and return to the community centre.