24 November.
Participants - Me and Ben
Where - Common Hill, 488m/1,600', Sub-2,000' Marilyn, Map 71, NS 792308.
The best of the weather was in the west so I headed down the motorway for a walk with Ben on Common Hill, a Marilyn outside Douglas. I drove as far as the houses at Douglas West where there was lots of parking. This is Common Hill from the Douglas West road.....
For some reason, each of the tops of this hill has a different name- Common Hill, Broomerside Hill, Henry's Hill, Hagshaw Hill, etc. It contains one of Scotland's earliest wind farms which was extended a few years ago.....
One advantage of the wind farm is the track that meanders all the way to the summit at a gentle gradient. Ben barked at the turbines when he first spotted them but soon stopped when he saw that I was not bothering about them. Here he is approaching the first of the turbines.....
All of the snow of the previous week had melted. I could see last week's hill, Dungavel Hill, just to the left of the trig in this photo, with the Culter hills beyond......
Tinto was prominent.....
as was Cairn Table to the west.....
There was also a good view of Tinto from the track on the way back.....
It was a walk of about 4 miles with about 240m of ascent, a fairly gentle leg-stretcher and just right for a young dog. Hope that this good weather continues!
2 comments:
Just to let you know, Neil, I've enjoyed reading about a few of your short walks up what I assume are your local hills. It has helped me to plan one or two short routes to break the journey to and from Scotland from Manchester. For example, I may pop up Lendrick Hill or Dumyat tomorrow on the way to Braemar.
Cheers
Martin
Thanks Martin, at the moment I'm concentrating on the really small hills as Ben is not yet old enough to do anything lengthy or steep! But the fact that they are small does not detract from the experience, I think that every hill has something of interest.
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