Of Corse this could have been easier....

[Jaxter]

Cycling - 43.42km, 480m ascent, 2 hours 45 minutes
Walking - 7.76km, 156m ascent, 1 hour 25 minutes

Corse Hill – a little bump south of Glasgow that I’d been looking at for some time, purely because it was easily within cycling distance and near to a students house, making for the perfect opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak.

I was feeling a number of injuries so in the interests of getting out somewhere, this was the idea of choice – we had been for pancakes in the morning and weren’t too keen to get going but eventually headed off about 3pm

Pancakes – Stack and Still is your friend


We cycled through Newton Mearns and as we climbed up the other side of Eaglesham we could see all the way to the Campsies and even Loch Lomond with both Dumgoyne and Ben Lomond visible


Malcy stopping for a breather


We dumped the bikes at the end of the track and continued on foot – although on Malcy’s silly pink map it had only looked like a quick mile it turned out to be more like 5km

I’d love to live somewhere with such a cool name


The map, like Malcy himself, also predated the wheel so there were a lot of extra tracks to negotiate than were marked!


Who’s the bigger fool – the fool or the fool who follows him?


It was an easy walk along good tracks to the summit of Corse Hill, although walking under the giant wind turbines was slightly unnerving


Biggest onshore wind farm in the UK


Summit of Corse Hill


The Galloway hills


A first time for everything – looking down on this one


What an idiot


Ben Lomond in the distance


Do something interesting….


Then it was back along the track through the turbines…


…back towards Carrot


Where we picked up the bikes


It was a really cold wind so we added layers before getting going – we decided to make it a loop and cycled home via Carmunnock which we managed successfully until we got lost in the Gorbals

Still, a nice way to make a bit of a mountain out of a molehill, and most importantly, Malcy was able to bag another Marilyn

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[rockhopper]

Yes, it certainly could have been......My local hill being just a few miles away. Have only been up twice though, from Carrot Farm before the windfarm was built and from the windfarm car park - cycled both times rather than walking although the former was quite a bit tougher. Nice day for it and some good, clear views. Thanks

[Raynor]

Can you park at the carrot end? I had an unsuccessful attempt at this one from the windfarm centre a few months ago. Underestimated the distance big time. It got dark and I got slightly lost

[rockhopper]

Can you park at the carrot end?

It's a very long time since I approached from that end and pre windfarm but we just parked on the edge of the singletrack road and there was a widened bit to the left before the entrance to Carrot Farm. See link below.

Link to google maps - Carrot Farm entrance

[Jaxter]

Can you park at the carrot end?

It's a very long time since I approached from that end and pre windfarm but we just parked on the edge of the singletrack road and there was a widened bit to the left before the entrance to Carrot Farm. See link below.

Link to google maps - Carrot Farm entrance

Yes rockhopper is correct (of course!) There were some folk parked at the junction where we left the bikes, didn't look very official but plenty space to pull off

[Jaxter]

Yes, it certainly could have been......My local hill being just a few miles away. Have only been up twice though, from Carrot Farm before the windfarm was built and from the windfarm car park - cycled both times rather than walking although the former was quite a bit tougher. Nice day for it and some good, clear views. Thanks

Makes it more rewarding when you do something daft doesn't it