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Beinn Dubh(642m)

Saturday 23rd September 2023

8kms

3hrs 30mins

I class Beinn Dubh as my local “go to hill” as it offers a short outing but has enough of a continual gradient to provide a good workout for legs and lungs; and anyway, it was quite some time since my last visit which was during one of the lesser restricted periods during Covid lockdowns.

No sign of restrictions today, as by 10 o’clock there was a total of seven large tourist coaches and a multitude of cars already parked up in the main Luss car park. So, a quick boot up and I was heading off across the footbridge over the A82 and leaving the mobs behind.

Beinn Dubh is a straight forward hill with no complications, a narrow, stoney track up through the bracken before opening out onto the broad, grassy, and today very boggy, hillside with a final kilometre or so along the broad top to the very small pile of stone, I hesitate to call them a cairn, that mark the 642m summit. A quiet hillside with only two couples encountered on the way up, and a similar few on my descent.

The weather held fair although cloudy, I felt reasonably comfortable on this slightly steeper hill than those of late, and I had renewed my acquaintance with one of my favourite “little” hills.

A very pleasant morning indeed.

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