Henshaw Hill (Pentland Hills)

 5 February 2023

Participants: Just me

Where: Henshaw Hill, 416m/1,365', P 35m, Tump, OS 65/72, NT 061 545

It was a sunny morning but with the expectation of cloud moving across the country from the west in the afternoon. So I headed east to bag this Pentland's outlier. I parked in a large lay by at the junction of the A 70 and the road to Tarbrax where a Scotways marked cross Pentlands path started. It was a bit wet to begin with but the path soon joined an excellent track which reached and then traversed Henshaw Hill just west of its summit. It was a high starting point so there was very little ascent on this walk. I saw no one else, this part of the range is very different from the popular area close to the city. But the spaciousness has an attraction of its own. One of the marker posts on the route.....

Henshaw Hill in the distance.....

I seemed to be right at the junction of the two weather systems, blue skies and sunshine to the east and cloud to the west! Tinto was a constant in the west view, a bit hazy but an attractive picture....

I left the path just before its high point and took to the easy upper slopes of the hill. The summit area was broad and it was impossible to determine an actual high point. The difference in weather patters was very obvious in the views, Tinto to the west and West and East Cairn Hills to the east.....

I returned by the same route.