Cowgill ride

  

Given the weather was wet and wild I decided to go do some exploring on my bike rather than get blasted off the hills with the gale force winds.



Cow Gill Loch



There exists a series of valley tracks that thread through the hills linking hamlets and villages of south Clyde valley which presumably were the routes used before metalled roads came about.

In the end I did a figure of eight loop going as far as Lamington returning via Cowgill Loch to Coulter and then Kilbucho. Most of it was on good tracks with short sections of road to link them. Despite the wind making pedalling hard on the way out, it actually turned out to be not too wet.

Heading back Mitch Hill on the left