Distance: 7 miles
Date: Monday 8th June 2009
Weather Conditions: Pleasant & sunny, clear skies, with passing clouds
Temperature: 19 C
Ordnance Survey Map: Landranger 63 (Firth of Clyde)
Guidebook: 25 Walks in North Ayrshire (Nicolson Maps)
Critique:
This walk is taken from a small, local guidebook to walks in Ayrshire. At first glance the instructions looked quite easy to follow, however once I started to follow the instructions in the wooded area near the beginning of the walks instructions, I quickly realised that the instructions were very, very weak. This was not helped by the fact that the map included in the walk's instructions is not a big enough scale to use to follow the instructions. I quickly became lost, although I did manage to basically go in the right direction, finding the right path was impossible. I even ended up reaching Douglas Park from a completely different direction.
In summary, although the views for part of this walk are stunning, I was unable to follow the instructions properly to follow the correct route and therefore abandoned the walk. I may attempt to do this walk again one day as I suspect the second half of the walk is probably easier to follow than the first part.
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