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Cairntable Crawl
Well for my dead legs it certainly was a crawl, though Andy and Johnston seemed full of life out in the wilds of the Ayrshire/Lanarkshire border. Only my 2nd time in 15 years up this, what is probably my local hill. The dire weather forecast wasn't too bad, though the wind was a bit cutting on top, didn't stop Andy braving it in T-shirt and shorts all the way, while I wimped on in cagoule mode, hat and gloves. Though boggy on the bottom, it is quite a runnable track to the massive cairn and despite wanting to turn round after 5mins I plodded on to the top in about 35mins. We enjoyed a lovely descent back down, relieved to see that our cars had survived an hour alone intact in Muirkirk. Dreich weather on the way back, so we lucked out there.
Posted by John Donnelly on Tue 28 Jul 2009 | 1 comment
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Johnston said...
Muirkirk is certainly one for connoisseurs of the West of Scotland's 'post-industrial' towns, John Macadam's tar kilns having been sited near the start of the Cairn Table track. There doesn't seem to have been much happening in Muirkirk since he packed it in back in 1827.
It was good to see JD augmenting the established comedy running double-act of Mott and Orr tonight. The headwind reduced our standard slow ascent to a glacial creep (we don't do "fast"). Sad to see the eroded scars on this hill growing so wide, and the boardwalks at the bottom are now all surrounded by mud at the ends, making them fairly pointless. Despite having said all that, it is actually a very enjoyable run! Lightweight Mott led the way, but will be subject to a kit check before any future expeditions :-)
Tuesday 28th July 2009 11.04pm