Yes, I know there are very few “giveaway” Scottish summits compared to the several “points on a plate” summits we have in G and GW!
When Jimmy @m0hgy and I had our last GM SOTA trip back at the beginning of April, we enjoyed terrific weather, and got every single summit activated that we’d planned out for the week. We said then that was exceptional, and very unlikely to be repeated on our next trip - which is coming up next week.
Sure enough, the weather looks a bit more unsettled. It will be a case of keeping an eye on the forecasts and swapping where we’re heading - or even have SOTA-free days if necessary.
One thing I did think was that it would be a good idea to have knowledge of any easier-to-access GM/SS SOTA summits south of Glasgow (if there are any!) - then if the forecast on a day wasn’t suitable for being out on the hills all day in the Langholm area, we could use the “wet time” to drive out further afield, especially if that led us to a summit that we could be up, activated and down within a couple of hours. Even more so if there happened to be any super-trivial ones like White Hill GM/SS-289, Lamberton Hill GM/SS-286 or Cairnpapple Hill GM/SS-254 that we’ve not done yet.
The ones we’ve already done are:
GM/SS-029, 030, 037, 052, 074, 082, 083, 087, 094, 100, 119, 122, 133, 140, 142, 144, 148, 154, 168, 172, 177, 179, 182, 187, 196, 197, 198, 199, 201, 203, 208, 209, 210, 211, 214, 219, 225, 228, 244, 246, 249, 253, 254, 259, 262, 263, 272, 274, 275, 277, 280, 281, 286, 289.
I appreciate that many of the more trivial ones will be in that list above. But we’ve hardly touched the area west of the M74 between Dumfries and Glasgow so maybe there’s some in there that might be suitable for a shorter activation?