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25th Apr 2024  18:10  by Maggs

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Lovely views. Did this on the same walk as Muirhoises and White Hill

©Maggs

9th Jan 2024  11:20  by Kctrig

Gridref: NS 50775 76253   FB Number: S3592  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

On a walk in the area to Jesus's Thimble and Lucifers walk from Milngavie. It was a lovely day, cold and crisp. Pretty boggy in part on route made easier on the frozen ground, It would have been a lot harder otherwise. Good views

©Kctrig
©Kctrig

1st Jul 2023  21:09  by Madam maxwell

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Third trigpoint from cochno carpark. Definitely made it hard for myself. Trying to find an easy route 🙈. I tried to get across to the forestry road I could see running below to follow this and fight my way through the trees to the trigpoint. Turns out there is a path up to it which goes around the larger Loch below it. Found this out by following it on route back down 🙈. Following the path all the way past the jaw reservoir and back to the carpark. 7.5 mile loop with the 3 trigpoints.

©Madam maxwell
©Madam maxwell

12th May 2023  13:44  by thejackrustles

FB Number: S3592  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

From car park NS 50354 73983 via Muirhouses, to Jaw Reservoir, Lucifer's Loch and Black Loch, then back via firebreaks to main track back to Jaw Reservoir.

Black Loch route ©thejackrustles
Black Loch collage ©thejackrustles

21st Jun 2021  19:26  by fasgadh

Gridref: NS 50779 76248   FB Number: S3592  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Used a new road which ends in the forest to the west. After visiting the summit, I used a well cut path through the trees to the moorland. There has been a lot of footfall around the pillar, probably due to travel restrictions in the Winter.

Above Craigmore The pillar and well trodden path©fasgadh
Above Craigmore ©fasgadh

5th Oct 2020  13:00  by Geoff Foordy

FB Number: 3592  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

views to the north east , The Campsie Fells and South and East over Glasgow and the Clyde Valley

28th May 2018  11:56  by Aqueously90

Gridref: NS 50775 76256   FB Number: S3592  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Log #488. Parking at south entrance to golf club, followed tracks up towards the hills then found a route through the heather and tussocks to the pillar. What looks like the remains of a fire beater have been shoved into the tube, and a skull on a stick is nearby for some reason. Good condition otherwise, decent views of the Campsies. Followed quad tracks south, then looped anti-clockwise through fields back to the busy road. Continued along the yellow road to visit the Hilton trig. [ExP-329/MiP-38/Rev-6/BM-39/IS-50/Other-26]

FB
Pillar
Cap missing

14th Sep 2017  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: NS 50780 76248   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Parked by barn at east Muirhouses, after which the track is barred by locked gate and sign (Private no public access) at NS506753. Walked round via new path marked "to Jaw Resr" - in westerly direction - but returned down "Private" track. Bracken on slopes to south of trig

13th Dec 2015  13:30  by peregrinus

FB Number: S3592  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Revisit en route to p30m summits just beyond

17th Oct 2015  11:05  by plet56

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

19th Jun 2015  17:25  by SlainteJimmy

FB Number: S3592  Condition: Damaged  Score: 5/10

Seriously nibbled and nobbled top corners. Sporting an interesting wooden addition and with a view to Dumgoyne.

Black Loch ..Dumgoyne view.

26th May 2015  19:45  by vegibagger

FB Number: S3592  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

along the forest east from West Muirhouses farm where the farmer Isla and Richie now charge £3 to park your car there! then up hillside to east of forest. nightmare hill summit to the west through 250m dense tees. not for the faint hearted.

trig looking north ©vegibagger
fb ©vegibagger

6th Oct 2012  11:35  by coinea

Gridref: NS 50778 76247   FB Number: S3592  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

6th Oct 2012  11:34  by clochandighter

Gridref: NS 50778 76247   FB Number: S3592  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Revisit. Approached from SW. Parked in Faifley, up via farmroads to Muirhouses then hillside pastures to top. Pillar in good condition but slightly worn around the top edges, still with much white paint. Spider centre open. Flush bracket faces east, ~81°. All sight holes open, innards filled with debris. 180° panoramic view centred on east, westerly aspect blocked by conifers. Photographed 6/10/2012. GOML disappointed me by being absent. Went up spoiling for a challenge.

S3592 - Black Loch & GRP
S3592 - Black Loch pillar & FB

23rd Dec 2011  12:15  by andyc

FB Number: S3592  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Pleasant if soggy walk up from the south. No access issues encountered but had to avoid the bullocks in the first field off the road by climbing a few slightly inconvenient fences. If the bulls weren't there the path would be pretty straightforward all the way up to the trig.

2nd Jan 2011  12:30  by Mickandkim

Gridref: NS 50775 76253   FB Number: S3592  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Access from east muirhouse with farmers ok Skirt right of forest and up path straight to trig Good views

21st Mar 2010  16:30  by descarte1

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Slightly damaged pillar with damage restricted to the corners being knocked off giving the top a strangely rounded look. Spider is intact although the cap is missing and unplugged. FB faces east-ish and all sightholes are open except east. The pillar is still white (ironically given its name!) although starting to look a bit tatty. The views are pretty good across to Auchineden Hill, Dumgoyne, Dumfoyne, Earl's Seat, Cort-ma-Law, Tomtain.....views restricted to the west due to the plantation. See Muirhouses log for info on access and GOML.....

16th Dec 2009  13:22  by campagvelocet

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 6/10

Decent views north towards Loch Lomond, northeast towards Dumgoyne and Earl's Seat and south to unruly urban stuff. Still mostly whitewashed.

21st Jan 2007  21:22  by agentmancuso

Gridref: NS 50779 76248   FB Number: S3592  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Had a vague memory of visiting this one some twenty years ago, on a walk between Milngavie and Bowling (?) railway stations. I was right - the awkward terrain to the south/ south-east brought back memories of similar irritation on that occasion. No sign of the Beast, but maybe I spiked her guns by coming down from Black Loch towards Muirhouses, rather than up the track past her.

2nd Jan 2006  12:00  by peregrinus

FB Number: S3592  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Pillar white, top rather rounded, no cap or plug, damp tussocky moorland (mist, no view). BSM style FB.

S3592 fb
S3592 top
S3592 trig
S3592 trig

14th Oct 1992  15:20  by clochandighter

FB Number: S3592  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

GOML Alert! Descended this hill half expecting another confrontation with the chain smoking Beast of West Muirhouses, who stopped me getting here from the SW in 1989. Claimed that an uninformed city dweller such as myself would disturb the sheep. I was on an evening break during a business trip and could not afford to get into any bother, legal or otherwise, not that trespass is an offence in Scotland. By 1992 following an ascent from the east, I was three years older and wiser, but looking out for that Beast again. This time I was spoiling for a good healty argument and ready to challenge the intellect of the said Beast. To my disappointment the Beast was nowhere to be seen - or heard. In the years since, and on very rare occurances of GOMLism, no subsequent GOML has ever successfully stopped me venturing onto open land, despite whatever their rantings may be. People like those who occupied West Muirhouses in 1989 (and possibly still do) give a bad name to the landowning community. They would do better to learn Scottish Law. The Beast? SHE was quite frightening!

S3592 - Black Loch FB & view