Saturday 02nd Feb 2013
Week 4 of "The Slackers training program
The most fantastic morning I think I can ever remember in the
month of January,cold but crystal clear.
“The Slackers” had decided to pick-up the Largs-Knock hill
circular at “The Miegle” and Walk towards Largs.
The Path is good at the start and conditions underfoot are
good, plenty of leaves on the path which made for a pretty picture.
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| Signs at the Path start @ The Miegle |
We started to climb through
the woods across the open fields with tremendous views back towards Arran
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| Fellow Slackers @ start |
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| Isle of Arran in distance |
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| The Climb begins |
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| leafy lined path pity it didnt continue like this |
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| Gate to path (wee Poem) |
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| Litter warning in the "Style of the Bard" |
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| Great Views |
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| Small Farm above Miegle |
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| Snow capped Arrochar Alps from Hills above Miegle |
First casualty of the day “90Rocks” cuts his finger and doesn’t
know how he done it.
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| Chaz with cut finger |
As we continued along the Ayrshire Costal path becomes very
boggy in places , the signs are pretty sparse and you need to be looking for
them to be able to stay on track.
At the fork in the road we headed out toward the Cairn above
Routenburn GC.
Note to all you keen hillwalkers: : This is a deviation from
the circular path
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| path convergence point |
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| Snow capped Arran from the path |
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| Path up to Trig point |
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| Nice view |
We climbed to the top of the Hill (to the Cairn) and stopped
for lunch and some pictures…
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| Lunch Break |
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| Isle of Cumbrae from Trig point |
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| View back to Inverkip from trig |
Not being 100% sure of how we re-joined the path we decided to make our way down,
we decided to opt for the tourist route back to Largs via Routenburn Golf club.
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| PPI anyone ? |
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| Small Skull @ way down |
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| Tourist Route back to Largs |
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| Hugo enjoys a run on the Open fairways |
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| "The Slackers" minus 90 Rocks |
Before long we were on the promenade in Largs watching the
small boats in the pond.
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| Largs Boat pond |
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| Old Boys @ LArgs boat pond |
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| Fyfe style Yacht @ Largs Boat pond |
Before long it was time for a beer The Royal Oak
pubs was the preferred stop for the Aprez walk refreshments.
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| Aprez Walk @ The Royal Oak |
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| Nice Jugs @ The Royal Oak |
Soup herb ! Another great piece of photojournalism from BLT... accompanying graphics just enhance the comprehensive text ! Good to see the boys with some new gear as well...
ReplyDeleteHi Anonymous, thank you fro the kind comments.. it was indeed a great walk and the conditions made for some fantastic views and great pictures..I am sure as the weeks progress and we move to the spring / summer fashions , things will defo pickup on the walking gear front.
ReplyDeleteBLT
hello, i loved your pics sooooooooooooooooooooo much !!! especially HUGO. he must have been tired after that long,long walk!! from hugo's fav chews!!!! hahahahaha
ReplyDeleteThank you so much... so glad your keeping up with the Blog.. HUGO is our new associate member, he enjoys the pub best :-) thanks for posting on the Blog, great to hear from you
DeleteDenny
your welcome, will keep watching!! xxxxx
DeleteGuys,
ReplyDeleteLooks like you've had a busy time since I met you in the station a few weeks back. I'm determined to join you one of these weeks, but we've got a lot of family stuff taking time at the weekends just now. Let me know where you're planning next week.
Hi John, looks like its going to be a Sunday Walk this week, will update the Blog and our new Facebook page :-) once we know where ... like us on facebook..
ReplyDeleteNot selected a route yet.. and as always it will be weather dependant.give you a shout later in the week