Wether Hill

5 September 2012.

Participants - Neil and Ben
Where - Wether Hill, 533m/1,755', Sub-2k Marilyn, Map 77, NX 696942

I had been wondering about this one for a while, I couldn't find many reports about it and yet it looked reasonably accessible. I drove down to Thornhill, through the picture postcard village of Moniaive and a couple of miles further on parked at the entrance to the track to the houses at Craiglearan. There was space for a couple of cars on the verge. There is a windfarm on Wether Hill but I wasn't sure where the service road started from. However, the online OS map showed the Craiglearan track joining up with the windfarm road and that looked the shortest route to the top. Ben was on his lead for a lot of the time, there were sheep about and also a herd of cows at one point, although they didn't show any interest in us. There is not a lot to say about the ascent; this is a picture of the original track followed by the windfarm road.....

It was a case of following the track/road all the way to the summit. The ascent was gentle as the road zig-zagged across the hillside; this is looking to the top group of turbines that surround the highest point.....

 If anyone is doing this hill in clag, the cairn is close to turbine no. 7. This is it looking west to Cairnsmore of Carsphairn.....

The view was quite good so we had a wee rest at a stone wall and fence just south of the cairn.....

I wouldn't say that the turbines enhanced the view, however.....

Having said that, the road was useful as the grass was a bit clumpy in places.

The return was by the same route. It had been a pleasant walk.