Great views on a blustery day

Yesterday, we took a  wee trip down to Largs, to climb the hill at the back of Douglas Park.  I had hoped there would be a trig pillar at the top - more on this later.

It was a nice sunny day, with a bit of a wind.  At the top, the wind got wilder, as we got more exposed.  But I'm gettin ahead of myself.  First, there's the neolithic burial chamber at the bottom of the hill.

The chamber dates from about 3000 bc, and is along a wee track, behind some houses at the side of the park.

After the burial chamber, it was time to get ourselves up the hill.  It's a reasonably well maintained path, and there's even some benches at various points on the way up, where you can get a decent view.

At the top there wasn't a trig pillar, but there was a bit of OS furniture.  I'd no idea what this was, but a friend who's trig obsessed, informs me it counts and you can bag it.  Here's Karen using it to avoid being blown off the hill.

There was also a wee cairn, which we sat at for ten minutes for a coffee before heading back down.

Finally, here's the view over Largs from the top of the hill.

Back at sea level, we walked back into town and had a curry before driving back  to Glasgow.

Weekend stuff

Well, the windfarm was pretty cool.  Got a lot of info at the visitor center.  It's the largest windfarm in Europe, and is going to be expanded again.

There's an iron age hill fort and a couple of trig pillars on the site, so I've got a good reason to go back and have a good mooch round.

Sunday morning was climbing time.  Six or possibly seven routes were bagged, including one that I'd fallen off last week.  I tried a different approach, and it worked a treat.  Afterwards I was knackered, but in a really good way.  It's a brilliant workout.

Weekend mooch

So, the weekend invloved walking in the hills, drinks with friends, and lazing about doing absolutely nothing except catching up with Dr Who.

On Saturday we went for a wander up Gleniffer Braes outside Paisley.  There was a trig pillar found...

....and there was standing stones.  Sort of.....

Later on, Robbie & Linda came over for a drink and a natter, but I was flagging by about midnight and had to bounce them.  Sorry guys :-)

Sunday mainly involved lazing about, catching up with Dr Who (loving it), and also a couple of episodes of Warehouse 13, which I like.  Sort of X-Files meets Reaper sort of thing.

Now it's back to work and planning for next weekend.