I have done that route 3 times, always down the walker’s path and round the left side of the loch. It is superb, if you can handle drainage ditches, else i’d recommend to go down as it shows on the map. Quite a hike-a-bike to get to the top, and another steep fire road climb to get back but again, the descent back to the car park is fantastic, though the Little Red Riding Hood feeling further down the path has been spoilt a bit by the trees all having been felt.
If SOH (Rickmeister) is free that weekend we’ll might well join (and have 3 spare seats in the van).
Oh and Jeremy, the tandem – I think it’s a no-no…. the hike-a-bike is at least for the first half so twisty through the trees that you even struggle with a single bike at times ….