15 August 2020
Participants: Just me.
Where: Wardlaw Hill, 145m/476', P 82m, Tump, OS 70, NS 3259 328 and Craigie Hill, 157m/515', P 66m, Tump, OS 70, NS 427 325
It was down to Ayrshire for this trip, a couple of easy Tumps near Dundonald. I went to Wardlaw Hill first, it has a mast close to its summit so was visible from a long distance away, I drove down a farm road and parked at a gate at the start of the service road for the mast. The high point was not the mast but a closer trig. There were a couple of horses in the adjoining field, I don't know much about horses but they looked like they were of the racing variety. The trig was a good view point for Ayr and the Heads of Ayr to the south.....
Troon to the west with an outline of the Arran hills on the horizon.....
and the view east with Loudoun Hill visible.....
I then drove east to the small village of Craigie.....
It was very quiet so I just parked on the main road beside the former church. Then it was up the lane next to the church, over a gate into a muddy field, across and up the field, over another gate and up again to some extensive and thick gorse. The summit was clear and there was a route through the gorse- just. There were a number of possible high points but the Hill bagging site had told me which was the highest so that avoided a further battle with the gorse.....
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