Participants: Neil and Ben
Where: Mounthuillie and Blairskaith Muir, 231m/758', Tump, Map 64, NS 605772
This is a Tump near Lennoxtown which I had not visited before, despite it being only 4 miles from home.
There was virtually no ascent, as a drivable road goes to a Forestry car park only a few hundred yards from the highest point which is now the top of a spoil tip of a disused quarry.....
but remarkably there is a view from it in a northerly direction towards the Strathblane Hills.....
I hadn't realised what a great network of forest tracks that there were up here, ideal for dog walking. After wandering along a few, I left the forest for the open ground on Blairskaith Muir where there was a trig and good views of Glasgow, the Strathblane Hills and the Loch Lomond hills beyond.....
I'm sure that I'll be back here again.
3 comments:
I really enjoy your reports and photos of walks up the wee hills. Two of your earlier reports led to me doing Castle Hill / Croy Hill on Monday and Tomtain / Garrel Hill from Kilsyth two Mondays ago.Thanks. I'm off to Dalmahoy Hill tomorrow with out 6 month old Shiatsu puppy, Alfie. Hope he will be able to go up many hills with me in the future like you and your lovely dog.
Thanks Russell. Dogs are great companions on the hills, Ben has done well over 100 Marilyns with me. He loves dashing about but fortunately doesn't go far from me. Only problem is that he can't come when I know that there are fences, sheep, cattle etc. Hoping that the weather really improves soon so that I can get some longer trips. Hoping to do some of the island hills this year.
I normally do that trig as the summit of a circular bike tour. It's a great area of semi sheltered upland plateau rich in wildlife before the higher colder hills further north. The track from the trig down to
Blairkaith Quarry is worth exploring as is the faint path from the 218 trig (during dry weather only)across Craigmaddie Muir past the Auld Wifes' Lifts and ornate carvings to Loch Ardinning. Surprisingly remote area that has few visitors.
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