What a great route from Kilpatrick train station to Milngavie train station via Duncolm (401m), the desolate Kilpatrick plateau, and the official middle of nowhere. Three hours is all it took and yet... such experiences cannot be quantified in temporal language. There is ecstasy up here in the solitude, space, and silence, and so necessarily one becomes extemporized and ecstatic. This is one of the many existential curiosities to be had when engaging the self in the wilderness: isolation. This is the true wilderness of your own savage interior, and it offers us the opportunity to explore it, and come to grips with our real self. So, excursions like this are not just physical, or indeed mental, but spiritual and existential. Going into the hills, and exploring one's own wild interior, has never been more urgent.
Cycling Meditations: Kilpatrick to Milngavie via Duncolm
(see route map here)
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