Knockour Hill- Mount Misery

18 May 2017

Participants: Neil and Ben

Where: Knockour Hill- Mount Misery, 176m/577', Hump, Map 56, NS 398853 and Whinney Hill, 164m/538', Tump, Map 56, NS 399842

 

With a name like that, I just had to climb it! The weather was the opposite of miserable, it was a glorious sunny day and the spring colours were at their best. I left the car in the Balloch Country Park car park and wandered uphill past the castle, now sadly closed and shuttered, before following a narrow path along side a burn before crossing a road that went to Boturich and entering the land owned by the Woodland Trust. The first part of the route was the same as that for Whinney Hill which I had visited earlier in the year.....

 

 

The bluebells were out.....

 

 

There are a great variety of trees here, thanks to the work of the Trust, which is well worth supporting.....

 

 

The gorse at the top of Whinney Hill was a blaze of colour......

 

 

The excellent path dropped downhill from Whinney Hill with Knockour Hill ahead.....

 

 

A left turn and then a right at the foot of Whinney Hill brought me into a lovely old meadow.....

 

 

There were a few individual seats if a rest was needed.....

 

 

And then it was back into the trees and a short walk to the top of Knockour Hill where there was a bench beside a cleared area....

 

 

I'm not sure where exactly the highest point was but it was a nice view anyway over Loch Lomond to the Luss Hills.....

 

 

 

 

It would have been rude not to have sat on the bench for a while before heading back. This is Whinney Hill from where I exited the forest.....

 

 

Using the furthest away car park from the hills gave me a walk of about 5 miles, one that I'll do again.