Lomond Hills & Bishop Hill circuit

[Johnny Corbett]

I started this walk from the car park on the Glenlomond road. From here you walk back along the road and take the path up the side of the Glen Burn, i then climbed up the slopes of Edge Head which brought me onto West Lomonds south west ridge and up to the summit. From the summit i headed north east to pick up the path to Falklandhill Quarry, here i crossed the road and took the path up to East Lomond. From east Lomond i retraced my steps back to the road at the quarry where i headed to Ballo Craigs and took the track along the north side of the reservoirs to just below Edge Head. Here i headed up to Bishop Hill, returning to the car park via Glen Burn. It was a beautiful day today with the hills busy with walkers but my day was to end badly. On return to my car i discovered i'd lost my car keys, with mt trouser zip only being three quaters shut. At some point during the walk the keys must have fallen out, so if anyone finds car keys on this walk i'd would be very pleased to hear from you. Kim came to my rescue and rather than wait in situe i walked down to the main road awaiting her arrival, she however did not have the spare keys so we had another journey to the location of the spare car keys. In the end things worked out ok and in future i will be making sure the keys are in a safe place.

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The start

West Lomond

West Lomond

Bishop Hill

On the path up

Edge Head

West Lomond

Loch Leven

North

East Lomond

West Lomond summit

Path to East Lomond

From East Lomond

West Lomond

Firth of Forth

Falkland

East Lomond summit

West Lomond on way to Bishop Hill

Bishop Hill

The Lomonds

Route down

Sundown

The last photo of the day

[SusieThePensioner]

Yes, what a disaster with your keys!

Enjoyed your report and the photos, good views Have done the circuit of West Lomond many times but only once walked up East Lomond

[mrssanta]

often looked at the lomond hills on the way up/down the motorway and thought they looked good. hope the keys turn up.

[luckyguy68]

Done the very same walk last year though my keys were safely attached to my rucksack. What a downer to what looked like an otherwise good day

[Johnny Corbett]

Cheers folks it was a great day and even the lost keys didn't dampen my day too much. I was like you mrssanta, been wanting to climb these every time i drive down the M90

[KGBMC]

Enjoyed your report Johnny, the Lomonds are my closest and one of my favourite walking areas

On Hogmanay my mate and I parked at Craigmead and headed for the craggy area above the Bonnet Stane doing a spot of Geocaching

After a break for coffee we walked on,he then found he had dropped his car keys somewhere behind, panic stations

Luckily using Tracbac on GPS and walking back about 1/2 mile we found them, what a releif as they would have cost about £200 to replace

Will keep an eye open when up the Lomonds, starting Friday

[Redrock]

Hi Johnny, I was up West Lomond on Monday too (about 3:45pm at the summit) - but sorry, there was no sign of your car keys. I walked up past the Bonnet Stane and it felt a lot colder than it looks in your pictures. There were great views of the distant hills to the north! I hope the keys turn up.

[ChrisW]

Great stuff JC, real bummer about the keys but don't let that take the shine off a fine wander, lovely pics of a hike I would really enjoy myself

[Johnny Corbett]

Thanks KGBMC, good to hear you got a happy ending to the lost car keys. I'll just have to be more carefull in future It is a great walking area and a lot of differant walking options

Hi Redrock, i would have been heading to Bishop Hill at that time, it would have been nice to have bumped into you. I found it pretty mild, all i had on was top and fleece. Brilliant day

Cheers Chris, i actually thought of you when i did this walk thinking it would be right up your street