Inveruglas

We walked out from our pitch today. Inveruglas is the start, or finish, point of the Three Lochs Walk. We decided to do the section between Loch Lomond to Loch Long, which took us through the valley of Glen Loin towards the head of Loch Long at Arrochar. The first part of the walk took us up to high ground on a steep roadway, put in for the local hydro electric scheme. Along the way we got talking to a walker coming in the opposite direction. He was from nearby Helensburgh, and he told us that he completed the Glen Loin Loop about two or three times a year. We had anticipated doing a return journey on the same path, but always prefer to come back on a different route and decided that is what we would do.
After lunching in Arrochar, plagued by midgies, we found the loop return and continued on our way. This path took us high up into forestry on well made forest roadways, eventually rejoining the hydro scheme infrastructure roadways on the other side of the forest. The loop itself is 11 miles long and we added 2.5 miles getting to the start at Glen Loin. All in all, Karen's phone recorded 34k steps, a daily record. Just as well there was some wine chilling in the fridge.Read more