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On the West Highland Way near Tyndrum BearsdenBearsden andand MilngavieMilngavie RamblersRamblers andand HillwalkersHillwalkers ProgrammeProgramme JanuaryJanuary -- AprilApril 20112011 Inside This Programme Booklet Important Note Page No. When sending in cheques for Buses or Social Events, please make cheques payable to “Ramblers Associa- Bus & Wednesday Walks inside tion, Bearsden and Milngavie Group”. Write the front cover name and date of the event on the back of the Important Dates 2 cheque. Please use a separate cheque for each bus or event. Forthcoming Events 2 Scottish Evening Menu 2 The Programme 3 Committee 12 inside Adverts back cover Wednesday Walks Wednesday morning walks are held on alternate weeks. The Website a) Wednesday Wanderers (often with pub lunch) normally meet in TESCO’s car park at 09:30. Note that this time has now reverted to its original time. The next walk will be decided on the day of the previous walk. Occasionally, the start time and place is different. Watch the website for any late changes. For information, phone Bob Diamond or Graham Murray. b) Short Walkers meet at Milngavie CE Leisure Centre at 10:00. For information, phone Andrew Summers. You will find a great deal of additional information on our website. New material is added All Saturday & Sunday walks meet at Milngavie Station Car Park (MSCP) almost daily. The Breaking News! section is where you will find details of changes to walks and the latest news about the Group and its activities. The Photographic Galleries of recent Walks with Buses walks and social events are always entertaining and there is a lot of advice about walking, equipment and how to lead walks. There are Links to other websites of interest to walkers and There is only one minibus walk in this programme on March 20. Booking details will be found with forms and many other things to Download. All in all, you can’t afford not to check it regularly! the walk details on page 8 of this programme. Book with Fiona Taylor for this walk. If you don’t have a computer of your own, you can get free access in any library and the staff Please note that there will be no refunds for cancellation less than a fortnight before the bus, will help you if you need it. unless the place on the bus can be filled from the waiting list. The summer bus walk schedule is being planned at the moment. Full details will be in the next Remember the address: programme. However, keep checking the Breaking News section of the website for any advance information about these walks. www.bearsdenandmilngavieramblers.org.uk Page 1 Programme January - April 2011 This Programme’s Dates to Remember Mon Jan 3 Walk: New Year Walk and Pub Lunch at Carbeth Inn C Leaders: Frank Pieri • Jan 3 New Year Walk & Pub Lunch at Carbeth Inn 8km (5miles) Peter Allan • Jan 8 Last date to book for the Scottish Evening (Jan 22) Meet at MSCP: 10:30 OS Sheet: LR 64 Exp 348 • Jan 22 North Strathclyde Area AGM & Members Walk Other Details: A walk to give a grand start to the New Year. Walk • Jan 22 Scottish Evening - “Not a Burns Supper but a Wee Hooch & to the Inn and back or arrange a lift for your return. a Chooch Instead” at Milngavie Bowling Club Names to the Leaders by 19th December. • • Feb 5 Bookings open for Traquair to Galashiels minibus (Mar 20) Wed Jan 5 Wednesday Wanderers - Longer walk with pub lunch • Feb 24 Last date to book for “Ladies Who Lunch” (Mar 10) Wednesday Wanderers have reverted to their original start time of 09:30 • Mar 2 Last date to book a seat at “Chess - The Musical” (Apr 6) Sat Jan 8 Walk: Dunfoin and Dumgoyne • Mar 6 Last date to book places on the Traquair to Galashiels B Leaders: Hugh Hopkins minibus walk (Mar 20) 10km (6miles) Peter Allan Ascent 500m Meet at MSCP: 09:30 • Mar 10 “Ladies Who Lunch”, Scholars Restaurant at (1640 ft) OS Sheet: LR 64 Exp 348 City of Glasgow College GR: NS 541 827 Other Details: A pleasant winter walk in the Campsies. • Mar 15 Last date to book for the Charity Night - Beetle Drive (Dumgoyne Summit) (Mar 25) • Sun Jan 9 Walk: Calderglen Mar 20 Traquair to Galashiels minibus walk C Leaders: Helena Bartos • Mar 25 Charity Night - Beetle Drive at Fraser of Allander Centre 8km (5miles) Ascent 60m Meet at MSCP: 09:30 • Apr 6 “Chess - The Musical” at The King’s Theatre (180 ft) OS Sheet: LR 64 Exp 342/334 GR: NS 661 549 Other Details: Circular with a short “there and back” part within the Calderglen Country Park near East Kilbride. All on paths with short steeper sections. Forthcoming Events Coffee stop at the visitor centre. • Fri Apr 29 Scottish Ramblers Gathering Wed Jan 12 Wednesday Short Walk to The 2011 Ramblers Scotland Gathering is taking place in Montrose Mon May 2 from Friday April 29 to Monday May 2. Sat Jan 15 Walk: Circular: East from Clachan of Campsie 2011 More information will be available shortly on the Ramblers website B Leaders: Helena and Peter Bartos www.ramblers.org.uk/scotland/scotland_events/Scottish+Ramblers+Gathering 15km (9.5miles) Keep an eye on our own website which will also carry details. Ascent 450m Meet at MSCP: 08:30 (1476ft) OS Sheet: LR 64 Exp 348 GR: NS 795 610 Other Details: Climb up eastward across the Fintry road to Menu for Scottish Evening (Saturday Jan 22) Chrichton’s cairn and along the ridge past Lairs. Turn South and descend at Knockybuckle to Lennoxtown via Garmore. Return to Clachan from Haggis & Neeps Lennoxtown along the old railway path. Steak Pie & Vegetables Grassy hills and paths. (Vegetarian Option - must be pre-ordered) Coffee stop at Clachan and/or Lennoxtown is Oatcakes & Cheese possible but not guaranteed. Tea & Coffee Sun Jan 16 No organised walk NB: Please do not bring your own wine, as this contravenes the terms of our lease of the premises. Additional wine and other refreshments will be available Wed Jan 19 Wednesday Wanderers - Longer walk with pub lunch for purchase at the bar. Wednesday Wanderers have reverted to their original start time of 09:30 Page 2 Page 3 January 2011 January - February 2011 Sat Jan 22 North Strathclyde Area AGM and Members Walk Sun Jan 30 No organised walk Venue: Meeting Room, Friends (Quaker) Meeting House, 38 Elmbank Crescent, Glasgow Wed Feb 2 Wednesday Wanderers - Longer walk with pub lunch Time: 09:30 Wednesday Wanderers have reverted to their original start time of 09:30 All group members are invited. There will be a members’ walk in the afternoon, along the Clyde Walkway, organised jointly by Glasgow and Sat Feb 5 Walk: Balmore Circular via Kirkintilloch and Torrance Glasgow Young Walkers Groups. C Leaders: Lilias and Andrew Summers There will be no Group organised walk. 10km (6miles) Meet at MSCP: 09:30 OS Sheet: LR 64 Exp 348 Sat Jan 22 Scottish Evening Other Details: Circular easy and flat walk from Balmore Garden - Not a Burns Supper but a Wee Hooch and a Chooch Instead Centre passing by Balmore and Hayston Golf Venue: Milngavie Bowling Club Courses. New walk repeated in opposite direction. Time: 19:00 for 19:30 Coffee stop at Dobbies. Cost: £15 including a glass of wine Details: A chance to “waggle your wallies and shake your sugarally Sun Feb 6 No organised walk watter” as the Laird o’ Coocaddens used to say. An evening of Scottish music, verse and chat in the familiar Wed Feb 9 Wednesday Short Walk surroundings of the “Boolin’ Club”. For menu details, see page 2 of this programme. Sat Feb 12 Walk: Balloch Circular To book places for this event, please send a Social Events Booking Form (downloadable from B+ Leaders: Alastair Clark the website) and a cheque for £15 to: Jenny Kane by Jan 8. 16km (10miles) Euan Kilpatrick Cheques should be payable to ‘Ramblers Association, Bearsden and Milngavie Group’. Ascent: 400m Meet at MSCP: 09:00 (1312ft) OS Sheet: LR 56 Exp 347 Sun Jan 23 Walk: Mugdock Circular Other Details: A walk starting in Balloch using the first section of C Leader: Bob Diamond the Three Lochs Way via the cycle path beside 11km (8miles) Meet at MSCP: 09:30 Loch Lomond, then towards Helensburgh for the OS Sheet: LR 64 Exp 348 outward route. Return is via the Other Details: A circular walk from Milngavie Station up through Hill Route Alternative and is on rough tracks, Mugdock Country Park and around both Mugdock moorland and then the Stoneymollan Road to and Craigmaddie reservoirs. A chance to recover Balloch. (Details of The Three Lochs Way on from the previous evening’s festivities. the website www.threelochsway.co.uk) Possible coffee stop at Mugdock Country Park No coffee at start. Visitors Centre. Sun Feb 13 Walk: Lusset Glen, Old Kilpatrick Circular Wed Jan 26 Wednesday Short Walk C (nr. Dumbarton) 10km (6miles) Leaders: Jean McManus Sat Jan 29 Walk: Drymen Circular GR: NS 729 468 Isobel Walker C Leaders: Maria Pieri Meet at MSCP: 09:30 11km (7.5miles) Ellen Robertson OS Sheet: LR 64 Exp 342 Meet at MSCP: 09:30 Other Details: We leave from the area of Old Kilpatrick Bowling OS Sheet: LR 56/57 Exp 347 Club, down through the Lusset Glen to the River Other Details: A pleasant winter walk which takes us north from Clyde. We walk along the saltings, then onto an Drymen along WHW, then back to Drymen via informal path on the river bank.