A run along the seafront at Lytham St Annes preceeded a monster 'all you can eat' breakfast this morning. The former didn't justify the latter and I made such a pig of myself that no lunch was required and as we set out for Common Hill* at 3.30pm, a banana was all I needed for further sustenance.
There’s not much to be said about Common Hill. We parked outside the Outdoor Centre (as marked on the 1:50k map) at West Douglas, from where a wind farm road took us, via lots of wind turbines, to within metres of the top.
The light wasn't right for this snap of me at the top:
It was better for this one of Mick by the trig point, which sits just a short distance away:
Looking through the turbines, the views were good, including various tops that even I could identify, like Lowther Hill, with its 'golf ball' radar station, on which we camped a couple of years ago.
The descent was made marginally more interesting than the ascent by taking a direct line from the trig to cut out a large wiggle in the track. Otherwise, it was all thoroughly unremarkable.
It came in at 5.4 miles with around 250m of ascent.
(* there was driving involved between these events. Common Hill sits to the W of the M74, N of Moffat and S of Glasgow)
There’s not much to be said about Common Hill. We parked outside the Outdoor Centre (as marked on the 1:50k map) at West Douglas, from where a wind farm road took us, via lots of wind turbines, to within metres of the top.
The light wasn't right for this snap of me at the top:
It was better for this one of Mick by the trig point, which sits just a short distance away:
Looking through the turbines, the views were good, including various tops that even I could identify, like Lowther Hill, with its 'golf ball' radar station, on which we camped a couple of years ago.
The descent was made marginally more interesting than the ascent by taking a direct line from the trig to cut out a large wiggle in the track. Otherwise, it was all thoroughly unremarkable.
It came in at 5.4 miles with around 250m of ascent.
(* there was driving involved between these events. Common Hill sits to the W of the M74, N of Moffat and S of Glasgow)
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