4 August 2022
Participants: Just me
Where: Meikle Caldon, 184m/604', P 48m, Tump, OS 57/64, NS 493 831
An evening walk to a Tump close to home that I'd neglected to visit so far, mainly because I hadn't noticed a place to park. However, a fellow member of the Relative Hills Society provided advice and, sure enough, it turned out that there was a handy parking place only 200 yards from the start of the walk. So I left the car in a wide entrance to a track on the other side of the A809 at Dualt and walked north up the road to the start of the track that led to the farm at High Finnich. I followed this track and before reaching the farm turned left on to another track that went between two fields. This went round Meikle Caldon to its south side where bracken slopes gave way to grass providing an easy route up. The view of Meikle Caldon from the start of the High Finnich track.....
There was considerable evidence that this hill is extensively grazed by cattle but all was clear on this visit. It was a good viewpoint. The Campsie Fells to the east.....
Auchineden Hill to the south.....
Loch Lomond, the Luss hills and Ben Lomond to the north.....
with Ben Lawers hills and Ben Ledi further round to the north east.....
A view of Ben Lomond through the trees on the way back.....
A good use of a couple of hours in the evening.
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