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Corwharn

Corwharn


Postby Gordie12 » Sat Oct 05, 2013 10:44 pm

Sub 2000' hills included on this walk: Corwharn

Date walked: 05/10/2013

Time taken: 3.8 hours

Distance: 12 km

Ascent: 546m

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Friday weather was pretty rubbish, Sunday sounds the same so today was a must to get out into the hills. I'm running out of Angus hills to climb but Corwharn was still on the list so decision taken and no need for an early start as this is a local hill just 30 minutes drive away.

I was parked up by the bins at Westerton where the ROW track to Glen Uig starts (or finishes!) and walking by 9.45.

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Oops, sun behind me, never noticed the shadow


It's a nice easy start on the ROW, most of the first couple of miles is tarmac albeit with some deep holes in places.

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Glen Quharity


I didn't want to do a straight up and down walk so when the road passed the end of the fenced forest to my left I went through an open gate in to a field and headed straight up the hill tight to the deer fence enclosing the woods. When I reached the top of the woods I was close to the Craig of Balloch but I was heading for the South side so headed down the field a bit to cross over to the North side and start the climb.

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Leaving the ROW


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Craig of Balloch


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The North slope


This was the hardest climb of the day. Fairly steep but good underfoot so after a couple of stops for "picture opportunities" I was up on to Milldewan Hill.

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Looking into Craig of Balloch


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Looking down to Glen Quharity


Once the steep bit was over I continued to climb on a much easier gradient when a fence line came in to view so just headed for it.

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First view of Backwater reservoir


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Heading for the 503m point on Milldewan Hill


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What I thought was Corwharn - It's actually Cairn Corse


A decent track ran parallel with the fence line as I now started to head directly towards Corwharn.

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Looking back to Backwater with Macritch & Creigh hills


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Corwharn tucked behind Cairn Corse


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Looking over to Mount Blair (zoomed)


Underfoot conditions were good and whilst Corwharn looked a long way away it didn't take that long to cover the distance.

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Looking back as I head towards Cairn Corse


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Being watched!


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Cairn on Corwharn (not the summit) looking towards Cat Law


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Looking towards Glen Prossen


I only had around 5 minutes at the top as the rain was on and I decided just to head off back towards Cairn Corse to find the track down into Glen Quharity and the ROW. I walked past the track I was after but used the GPS to back track and once I spotted the shooting butts the route was obvious.

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Heading down past the shooting butts


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Looking back up to Corwharn from the ROW


Once back on the ROW it was a straight forward walk back along a grassy track before reaching Longdrum where it was tarmac all the way back to the car.

It took exactly two hours to reach Corwharn along the tops and an hour 45 mins to get back to the car from the top of Corwharn. Not the most exciting hill in the world but a nice way to spend 4 hours and with Saints humping Inverness, all in all, a great day :lol: :lol: :lol:
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