We parked at the Auchnacraig car park and walked down the lanes to reach the track up to Greenside Reservoir. This was the quickest going and driest bit of the day! From Greenside it is a quick climb up to the Slacks trig point, and then we took a fairly direct line down to Loch Humphrey.
Towards Dumgoyne and the Campsies from the Slacks
The scar is pretty clear from Loch Humphrey leading off towards Duncolm and it was wet. So much bog. It has been a pretty miserable few days (weeks? Months?) so not surprising it was sodden, but my walking pal Chris was approaching trench foot levels of soggyness.
Towards Duncolm from the Slacks
Loch Humphrey
We slowly made our way over to Middle Duncolm, then it is one last little boggy climb up the side of Duncolm itself.
Duncolm from Middle Duncolm
Towards Loch Lomond from Duncolm. Ben Lomond and a snowy Ben More clearly visible.
We came down the south side of Duncolm, following some old broken iron fencing which eventually turns into dry stone wall. There is a decent trod route following the right hand side of the wall all the way back to Greenside Reservoir, again very wet but probably no worse than what we went through on the way up.
From Greenside Chris decided his feet couldn’t get any wetter so we went over Cochno hill over to Jaw Reservoir and back down through the fields to the car park. Excellent day out.
