The Merrick

Trip Start May 01, 2007
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Saturday, May 10, 2008

This was my second walk as walk leader with the Glasgow Young Walkers. I had decided to go south of Glasgow again - to walk The Merrick. The Merrick is located in the Galloway Forest park in the south west of Scotland. It is the highest mountain of the southern uplands, and lies aboe the spectacular Glen Trool and Loch Trool.

Once again we headed south instead of north or west, this time for a
walk up the highest peak in the southern uplands. Some heavy rain
before getting out of the car didn't deter us, and we ended with clear
fantastic views from the summit of the Merrick. A nice lunch with nice
views was had, before heading back down.

On the way down the heavens opened up and we got drenched in a spectacular thunderstorm. It was the first time I had been out walking in a thunderstorm and I found it quite exciting (with a small element of danger I guess). I'm glad we were off the summit by that stage.

It was a long trudge through some boggy terrain back to
the car park, but was well worth it. There was also a small dose of history before we reached the car park, as we saw Bruce's Stone. Bruc'es Stone commerates a victory of the Scots over the english in these very hills in 1307. The Scots were said to have rolled boulders down the hills at the english, and looking at the terrain, I can see that that's true.

Another fantastic walk.
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