The Marilyns - Pics from the Tops

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27C Bainloch Hill
NX893571 29.5.2009

14.23 NE from Bainloch Hill 14.23 NE from Bainloch Hill
14.24 E from Bainloch Hill 14.24 E from Bainloch Hill
14.24 S from Bainloch Hill 14.24 S from Bainloch Hill
14.24 SE from Bainloch Hill 14.24 SE from Bainloch Hill
14.24 SW from Bainloch Hill 14.24 SW from Bainloch Hill
14.24 W from Bainloch Hill 14.24 W from Bainloch Hill
14.25 NW from Bainloch Hill 14.25 NW from Bainloch Hill
14.28 Looking back at the cairn 14.28 Looking back at the cairn
14.31 Sandyhills Bay 14.31 Sandyhills Bay
14.31 Solway Firth 14.31 Solway Firth

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I initially started from the £1.50 car park at Sandyhills Bay and headed up the track to Laggan intending to head NW from the bend in the track at NX896566. However a local at Laggan recommended an alternative route which would avoid the deer fence which follows the line of the NE-SW wall just S of the summit. He said to park near Bow Hill at NX861562 where a track eventually went to the summit.

Parking was not a problem and at the track junction at NX883572 I took the left fork (possibly the R fork woud have been better). This headed generally NE past Bainlock, but the path petered out at NX889578 so I headed SE to the upper wall then SW to the forest at NX889573 where there appeared to be a break following a stream. After difficult thrashing through dense-ish forest I eventually emerged W of the summit cairn.

I returned S to the wall & deer fence referrred to before and followed this SW but forest encroachment made this difficult and I climber over to the much easier going on the other side of the deer fence. I climbed back over the wobbly fence & wall at NX887565 to follow a track which led NW to the road just S of where I was parked.



(1 hour 45 mins, 2.7 miles, 800' of ascent)

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