This is the route that kicked it all off.... The back-road into the universe one dreary Saturday afternoon. I keep coming back to it, not least because of the serenity of the road itself, but also because of those looming primordial forms of the fells, forms like Tomtain, Meikle Bin, Dungoil...
And also the mere fact that from Queen Street by train, it takes just 12 minutes to get there!
This time instead of finishing at Lenzie and training it back from there I decided to go the other way once I reached Lennoxtown, towards Milgavie. To be honest there's not much difference in terms of mileage or quality. Either makes a good finishing point.
The starting point here is Croy train station, the start of the pink line on the right of the map. Head down through Kilsyth and then onto the Tak Ma Doon high road. Follow the outer pink line unless you want to get up the Meikle Bin (the highest point in the whole Campsie range) in which case take the inner one into the Carron Valley (MTBs only). As I mentioned, when you get down to Lennoxtown, head west instead of east on the lovely Thomas Muir walk-cycle-way until Strathblane where you head up the Old Mugdock Road, through Mugdock, and down the other side to Milngavie train station.
From the quiet B818, a couple of keen fishermen in the Carron Reservoir with the misshapen forms of the fells in the background.
Already the head is part of the horizon... From the B818, with the Meikle and Little Bins right behind my head...
Heading down to Fintry... with Dungoil on the distant left, and the Corrie of Balglas on the distant right.
An old codger on a road bike heading up the B822 (the Campsie Glen road) which will take us past Dungoil (pictured) and various other hills as we chisel our way through the Campsie range to Lennoxtown.
Allow a good few hours for the route assuming you are not a head-down sort of guy. There is no reason to have your head down anyways. This route is made for pausing, slow-cycling, and gazing through God's windows...
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