Kilpatrick Train station starting point. From here head to the foot of the Loch Humphrey path about two minutes away by bike. On the map below it's the red line with black dashes up past Craigleith (please excuse the cartographic chaos) and then just the black dashes to the left and down onto the black line back to the train station.
Ditch
the bike and vault the fence into the field (the one that soon slopes
steeply upwards). Follow through the fields up and up and up (I think
there are three fields!). There is a vague path. Just follow that.
Pitstop one: baptism in the babbling brook.
The drystone wall. There's a seat up there on the wall which has perfectly moulded to the shape of my spine.
The view towards the city as we approach the top.
Contemplation Rock (top right).
The view looking west. I usually nip down here towards those gnarly looking trees (in spite of the trail continuing further 'inland'). Once down there, and over the drystone wall you'll see another vague trail which will lead you round to a more visible path which will then take us down to the Loch Humphrey path).
Jump the wall and find the trail that will in about 100m or so join up with another (after you vault another small fence).
Heading down past the 'Hillary Step'.
You can if you peer hard enough see the hillary step up there somewhere. This is the Loch Humphrey path. Just follow down for about 500m or so to where we started.
A short video I made from near the top at end of February.
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