Wull Muir and Torfichen Hill

 4 March 2024

Where: Wull Muir, 433m/1,421', P 33m, Tump, OS 66/73, NT 353 545 and Torfichen Hill, 468m/ 1,535', P 32m, Tump, OS 66/73, NT 336 527

Another cold and clear early spring day for this week's hills. This time it was the hills south of Middleton off the B7007 road that goes from Gorebridge to Innerleithen. Wull Muir was a very short climb from a high point in the road- about 30 minutes there and back. I parked in the entrance to Carcant wind farm. It says no admittance but of course that is against Scottish Right to Roam law but in any event the hill itself is not part of the wind farm.

A grass track left the wind farm road only a few yards in and went all the way to the summit which was the other side of a wall next to some trees. Someone had planted a tree to mark a 50th wedding anniversary and there was a bench. Good view of the Pentlands and Edinburgh from here.....

I then took the car a couple of miles further down the road and parked at the entrance to Blackhope Farm next to a sign for a couple of footpaths.....

The path that I wanted was the one for Gladhouse Reservoir which went very close to the top of Torfichen Hill. The high point is not the trig which is  some distance away to the north east. There was a good view of Blackhope Scar on the way up and again from the summit; this might be a better way to do that hill than the usual bog fest route from the north.....

The Pentlands were prominent to the north, over Gladhouse reservoir.....

A look across the moor to Wull Muir.....

On the way down, I took a photo of another couple of Tumps on the other side of the road- Longshaw Law and Whiteside Law. I will be back to do these.....

Although there was a bit of a cold wind, it felt and sounded like spring. Lots of Skylarks, a couple of pairs of Lapwings and a solitary curlew accompanied me on Torfichen Hill.