East Mount Lowther and the two horrible ones

stantheman · Last edited by stantheman on Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:22 pm; edited 1 time in total

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Calendar Event: October 17, 2009

With a superb weather forecast , I decided it was time to get my Donald total moving and with half a day available set off for Wanlockhead .
I decided to bag the easy trio and leave the other more interesting (?) Donalds for another longer day .

So 845 am found me booted up in the car park just above the village
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Set off at a fair lick up the good path

Soon joining a rather unpleasant tarmac road Sad

, I took the advice of the SMG Corbett book and branched off right at a bend in the road to follow a grassy track to the col between East Mount Lowther and Lowther Hill Smile

Looking to East Mount Lowther Smile

Ssssh don’t look round to Lowther Hill Evil or Very Mad

At the summit of EML looking to Lowther Hill – I reached EML in just 48 mins from the car .

Now almost at the summit of LH and looking over to a real hill

Unmentionable things , I wondered if Martians were going to come out and capture me !! Evil or Very Mad

I read that the actual summit is inside the “ verboten “ area but did find this pile of stones

The horrible tarmac road to Green Lowther Evil or Very Mad

And more clutter

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Looking back to LH

And to proper hillwalking , is this the way to the other donalds or do you turn right ( did’nt have map )

I almost missed the trig point

Back to LH and down the same path , I noted several folk with prams and buggies and it was getting really busy .
Overall quite a nice half day it you forget about the clutter . Could be a bit spooky in mist . Back to the car in just 2 hours 45 , not sure how many K .

Would recommend EML , a very nice hill .

stantheman · Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:21 pm Post subject:

I did not find Green Lowther in the list of Donalds or New Donalds ?? Confused

Hils · Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 10:18 pm Post subject:

Nice day for it eh! I quite enjoyed my trip to these hills, quite different from the norm eh!

fertg1234 · Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 11:07 pm Post subject:

Have only ever seen these hills from below, I maybe tempted up them next time though. I actually loved the dinky wee road on Lowther, it looks great.

Farside · Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:09 am Post subject:

I did these hills in some of the thickest mist I have ver walked it.
Taking a direct-ish line from East Mount Lowther to Cold Moss was quite a good navigational challenge particularly when a new, unmapped fence was met on route.
The buildings and masts on Lowther Hill and Green Lowther were very creepy in the mist. I have to say, in those conditions I was quite glad of the tarmac.
I did the whole ridge down to Louise Wood Law that day and later on in the day the cloud lifted and it ended up being quite a nice day.

Oct 17 was a great day. I was up Ben Vane in the Trossachs.

malky_c · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:03 pm Post subject:

This report deserves a bump because your evident online re-arranging of photos has produced some hilarious results Laughing

agentmancuso · Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 10:34 am Post subject:

fasgadh · Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 7:21 am Post subject:

Run over by a bus. I believe the TransLowther Tramlink is much delayed. Baggers should allow extra time for roadworks if taking the A844 up from Wanlockhead.

PS got the Lowther Hill top quite easily last time.
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