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Blairdenon from Sherrifmuir

Blairdenon from Sherrifmuir


Postby cbuchanan3 » Mon Jan 24, 2022 3:51 pm

Donalds included on this walk: Blairdenon Hill

Date walked: 22/01/2022

Time taken: 4 hours

Distance: 12.3 km

Ascent: 390m

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With visibility not going to be great due to low cloud, it wasn’t going to be an outing with epic views today, but as always good to get out for a few hours.

We decided to head over to Sherrifmuir and my son and I had a laugh when the newsreader on the car radio mentioned that the cloud was going to lift and leave a clear day….not according to any of the forecasts we’d looked at! We parked up just beyond the old Inn next to the little cluster of trees where there are a couple of layby’s. The plan was to head up towards Blairdenon and do a loop coming back down past Big/Little Hunt. We set off up Glentye and as expected pretty quickly found ourselves in the cloud where we would pretty much stay for the next few hours. We plodded on up and down the other side heading towards the path up the side of Mickle Corum. There’s a fair bit of work been going on recently with some new fence lines going up and a fair bit of planting going on. We passed through the new gate and picked up the path which heads towards the fence line on the top. Once you hit the fence line it’s just a follow along it along to Greenforet Hill and then a left turn to get you to the “top” of Blairdenon. There was a stiffish wind and thoughts were turning to a brew and a snack – there’s not much shelter up there, so we had a quick recce to see if there was anything that would give a wee bit shelter, but after a few minutes decided to retrace our steps back and push on a bit and follow the fenceline South and down into the a wee gulley where we could get a bit of shelter.

We knew the next bit was over Menstrie Moss and so the going underfoot was to be squelchy and we weren’t disappointed as it turned into a bit of bog trotting! Nevertheless we picked our way through it, keeping the fence line to our left and were able to pick out the path heading NWish just at the change in direction of the fenceline which would take us back down and quick bearing confirmed this was where we wanted to be heading. We followed the path the path down, bypassing Big Hunt Hill and eventually you pick up the new man made track as part of the Jerah plantation. This track nor some of the plantion is not shown on the Harvey’s map we had and for whatever reason it thew me a bit! After a minute or two we were able to sort ourselves out and spotting Dumyat to the South figure out that we needed to hang a right here and follow the track (quick check on the gpx on the phone confirmed) which would take us back down to the Sherrifmuir Road. The track brings you out right on the road at a little bridge over the Burn and from here a wee trot along the road back to where we had parked the car.

As I mentioned nothing to note in terms of views but sometimes it’s fun to get out and practice some skills and stretch the legs. The walk itself was nothing too strenuous and as always we both enjoyed getting out for a bit.
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