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Caption: _______ Ben Venue Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park
Caption: Ben Venue is a fine Scottish hill, one of the rockiest in the Trossachs. It is 812m high, making it what is known as a 'Graham'. (Grahams are the mountains in Scotland between 2000 and 2500 feet high, with at least 500 feet of descent on all sides.)
There are various routes up this hill, but on this day we climbed it from the Ledard Farm approach (Loch Ard side). In all this route is 11.5km and takes around 5-6 hours.
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Caption: The walk starts off through a lovely section of broad leave forest trail. Some nice wee water falls too.
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Caption: The trail soon opens up. What a lovely day we had for it. Some burns to cross....
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Caption: And some big stiles to clamber over...
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Caption: The trail levels out for a while as we travel along the mountainside.
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Caption: Onwards & upwards...
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Caption: Nearly there, the views are opening out just nicely. That's a snow topped Ben Lomond in the far distant left...
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Caption: I love the wee scrambly bits...
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Caption: Quite surprised to find snow here...I'm guessing that's where the sun don't shine...
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Caption: Ben Lomond
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Caption: And there we are. On the summit.
What a great place to have lunch.
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Caption: From the summit. Below is Loch Achray & Loch Venechar respectively.
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Caption: Again from the summit looking down to Loch Katrine. Home of the famous steamship, the Sir Walter Scott.
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Caption: It's a splendid view for sure...
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Caption: 'Hillwalking group' shot at the summit (yours truly in the 'man stance' far left haudin in ma belly 😂👊).
What a great day, good company, superb weather and a cracking walk.
Good times ✌️