Ness Glen 8 March

Alan, Allan, Davie Mc, Dougie, Gus, Ian, Kenny T, Malcolm

Meeting at the dam on a dry morning, everyone decided that it would be sensible to do the Ness Glen walk today rather than the Four Lochs one. We were soon on our way and were glad to get some shelter from the chill wind.

This walk has been described many times before so, suffice it to say, we did the familiar figure of eight route, going high first.
Underfoot conditions were variable, ranging from dry tarmac to extremely muddy off road sections. Care was taken when stepping on stones as they were slippy.
Coffee was taken at our usual benches and lunch devoured beside the ruins of Berbeth, a spot sheltered from the wind. From here we had a great view of ‘the Beoch’ and reminisced of the day, not so long ago, that we were up there.
As we reached the gorge we encountered some light rain but, all in all, the weather had been kind to us. ‘Three hours and fifty-five minutes’, said Davie, and the technology said nine and a bit miles.

FRT was taken at the Dalmellington Inn where there were only a few local punters in and no racing on the telly. In fact, the telly was showing a music video channel and we were perplexed for a while as to why the sound didn’t seem to match the pictures. We then realised that the telly was muted and the music was coming from the wee juke box. Aye, auld age disnae come itsel’. Nonetheless, a good hour was had.