An excellent walk with the KOIR today. The perfect mix of a beautiful spring day, great company, a super walk with magnificent views, what’s not to like.
We started from Drymen and followed the West Highland Way trail to Conic Hill. Still deep patches of snow. We met very few people on this section but that was to change big style at Conic Hill.
As we approached Conic Hill looked good from this angle with the blue sky background.
A meander around its flanks started to bring us into people traffic. As we made the short ascent there were about a dozen other people here but significantly most of them failed to realise that the bare section at this top is not the summit.
That is an up and down over two hills to the east and your reward for this effort is a small cairn and at a whole 3 metres higher, this is the real top of Conic Hill.
A lingering look over the snow topped Luss hills, Arrochar tops and of course Ben Lomond. The rain predicted from tomorrow should clear most of the white stuff.
On our descent a constant trail of people were coming up, mostly young, some foreign. This was a Tuesday afternoon do they not have work or education to do, shocking.
Finish at balmaha and the statue of the great outdoor Scot Tom Weir, I reckon this will divide opinion, the likeness is not for me.
Overall a great day out.
Time: 4.06
Ascent: 509m
Distance: 13.6km
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