A well-built path starts at a small green signpost opposite the Quiraing car park. The jagged tower of grass and rock on the skyline is The Prison. The path crosses over the steep landslip slope towards it, with an awkward crossing of a small stream gully on bare rock and then passes a small waterfall high above and heads to the right, rather than up into a rocky gap. It turns uphill into the wide col to the left of The Prison.

The main path does not drop, but goes forward, slightly uphill, crossing a fence at a stile and then dodging below a crag foot. It crosses the foot of steep ground, then passes above a small peat pool. Ignore a path forking down right; the main path slants up to the left into a col where an old wall runs across.

The path descends into a landslip valley that runs across rather than down the hillside, then slants up left to a col with a stile.

Cross and turn right for the excursion to Sròn Vourlinn. Follow the crest over a slightly rocky section with a short descent beyond, then join the main path along a grassy meadow with a very sudden edge on the right. After the highest point, continue slightly downhill to the north top. Here you can see that the land is still slipping, with a crevasse beside the cliff edge where another narrow section is shortly to peel away. The shelter of the rock crevice grows rock rose, rowan and valerian.

Return to the col with the stile (Point 4) and continue uphill. The drops are now on your left, as you look down towards the pinnacles surrounding The Table. After passing broken ground on the right, you come to a fallen wall, part of which appears from below as a cairn. The path continues next to the cliff edge on the left; you can fork off right, directly uphill, to the summit trig point on Meall na Suiramach.

Follow a broad faint path slightly downhill to a cairn at the cliff edge. You now look straight down on to The Table, 100ft (30m) below. Turn right on the wide path alongside the crag drop. After 0.25 mile (400m) as the path steepens, you’ll see a fence on your right with a kissing gate. Once through this, the path becomes much clearer, contouring across the steep slope of Maoladh Mòr. Above the car park, it turns straight downhill for a final ascent.