30 May 2018
Participants: Neil and Ben
Where: Corlick Hill, 303m/994', P 108, HuMP, OS 63, NS 290 728
I'd been out twice this week already doing TuMPS but as it looked as though there might, by the weekend, be a breakdown in the long, fine spell of weather that we were enjoying, I decided to head out again. Boy, was it hot. If it hadn't been for the light breeze, I would really have been struggling. Corlick Hill, south of Greenock had been on my radar for a while and it didn't disappoint. It was easily the best hill that I have climbed so far in the Clyde Muirshiel Country Park. It probably helped that there was a track all the way to the top and that you can drive up to about 200m on the minor road that runs from Greenock over the moors to Largs. The track passes Whitelees cottage after which the hill is in view.....
There were sheep and lambs about so Ben stayed on his lead. Not ideal as he was in his most tugging mood on the way up! He was OK coming back, I guess that this is because he has already covered the ground so there is nothing totally new to examine. Here he is at the trig with the Roseneath peninsula and the Clyde sea lochs in the background.....
and south over the Gryfe reservoirs to the higher hills to the south of the Park.....
Looking up the Clyde towards Dumbarton, Clydebank and I suppose Glasgow. That wind anemometer is a bit worrying, surely they're not planning on building a wind farm here?
Another photo of the sea lochs.....
We didn't linger too long at the top, it was too hot to sit about. So not a long walk but a good one.
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