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Photographs and Map of an ascent of Ben Lomond

via the Ptarmigan route and NW ridge

in the Southern Highlands of Scotland

Ascent of Ben Lomond via the normal route

 Ascent of Ben Lomond from the East


Ben Lomond above Loch Lomond







Ptarmigan sub-peak on Ben Lomond from Rowerdennan on Loch Lomond

Ptarmigan - a sub-peak of Ben Lomond

- from Rowerdennan on Loch Lomond



Ptarmigan sub-peak on Ben Lomond

Ptarmigan 

- a sub-peak on Ben Lomond





Rowardennan on Loch Lomond

Luss Hills

opposite Rowardennan

 on Loch Lomond





Islands in Loch Lomond on ascent of Ben Lomond

Islands in Loch Lomond

on ascent of Ben Lomond



Islands in Loch Lomond on ascent of Ben Lomond

Islands in Loch Lomond

on ascent of Ben Lomond





Loch Lomond on ascent of Ben Lomond

Loch Lomond

on ascent of Ben Lomond




NW ridge of Ben Lomond

NW ridge of Ben Lomond





Loch Arklet on approaching summit of Ben Lomond

Loch Arklet

on approaching summit

 of Ben Lomond




Trig Point on summit of Loch Lomond

Walkers at Trig Point

on summit of Ben Lomond

Ben Lomond ( 974m, 3,196ft )

 is the most southerly

and one of the most popular

of the Munros.





Christopher Charles Ingram on Ben Lomond





Trig Point on Ben Lomond

Trig Point on Ben Lomond




Arrochar Alps from Ben Lomond







Arrochar Alps and Loch Lomond from Ben Lomond







Arrochar Alps above Loch Lomond from Ben Lomond





Ben Vane and Ben Vorlich above Loch Lomond from Ben Lomond





Luss Hills and Loch Lomond from Ben Lomond





Winter ascent of Ben Lomond

Winter ascent of Ben Lomond




Winter ascent of Ben Lomond

Winter ascent of Ben Lomond




Winter ascent of Ben Lomond

Winter ascent of Ben Lomond 




Arrochar Alps from Ben Lomond

Arrochar Alps

from Ben Lomond
 





Ben Vane and Ben Vorlich from Ben Lomond

Ben Vane and Ben Vorlich

from
Ben Lomond 




Map for Ben Lomond

 Map for Ben Lomond

Ascent via the Ptarmigan path

 and descent by the main tourist path

 is recommended to make a circular tour.


Route Map for Ben Lomond

 Route Map for Ben Lomond


Route Description for Ben Lomond

Location: Stirlingshire
Grade: Moderate mountain walk
Distance: 7 miles / 12km
Time: 5-7 hours


Ben Lomond is prone to such sudden blasts of weather — she raises her beacon on the edge of the Highland line and offers the first point of
resistance to any weather systems coming in from the south-west.
While Ben Nevis is generally acknowledged as “The Ben”, that particular nickname, as far as Glaswegians are concerned, goes to Ben Lomond, a Munro that can be seen from the city, just as the city can be seen from Ben Lomond’s summit.
As I tramped up through the Rowardennan woods, relishing the wind surfing through the oaks, birches and larches and appreciating the well laid path, I thought of the National Trust for Scotland with gratitude rather than the seom the charity appears to suffer from these days.
It is the NTS to thank for the well maintained footpath that runs up the hill from the Halfway Well, a path that marches resolutely north up the long ridge of mica-schist that falls away from the summit cone. Not everyone likesthese cobbled trails but not that long ago this path was ten metres wide, a swathe of mud and peat, ever-widening as more and more walkers tried to avoid the morass in the middle.
Any notion of sterile amenity is balanced by the fact that the hill has gradually healed itself, regenerating and growing to the edges of the path.
In an amazingly short time the former muddy scar has been replaced by a narrow footpath — far preferable to what was there before.
Eventually the path zig-zags up the final slopes to reach a kilometre-long curved ridge from which cliffs fall away to the northeast. The summit cairn and view indicator lie at the north-west culmination of this ridge and in clear conditions the views are dramatic. The tops of the Arrochar Alps and Crianlarich hills appear to choke the northern end of Loch Lomond, a real jumble of peaks that clearly contrasts with the flatlands in the south — the highlands and the lowlands, with Ben Lomond acting as the Highland edge.
Most folk return to Rowardennan the way they came but a good alternative is to continue north over the summit and then down steeper slopes to the subsidiary top known as the Ptarmigan.
The descent of the Ptarmigan ridge is always a treat with its views of the archipelago of islands at the southern end of the loch.


ROUTE PLANNER


Map: OS 1:50,000 Landranger Sheet 56 ( Loch Lomond & lnveraray ); Harvey's 125,000 Superwalker Map, Ben Lomond & Loch Katrine.
Distance: 7 miles / 12km
Time: 5-7 hours
Start / finish: Rowardennan car park ( GR: NS360985 )
Public transport: None to the start.
Information: National Park Centre, Balmaha, 01389 722100, info@lochlomond-trossachs.org
Route: A well signposted footpath climbs through the woods from the car park at Rowardennan.
Follow this path
onto the S ridge of Ben Lomond and follow the path and the ridge N to the summit.
Descend N, then W to gain the
Ptarmigan ridge.
Follow the ridge S to
the Tom Fithich burn, which is followed to the West Highland Way track.
Follow the
track S to Rowardennan.

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