Peter Collins: I was turned back on 24 April near Loch Pitcarmick by an English-sounding Land Rover driver - usual stuff - no right of way - clients shooting (in April?) - disturbing the birds etc. 'No parking' sticker under my wiper on return to road. He suggested a 'right of way' from Kirkmichael.
Bill Fairmaner: Two high, locked gates and signs saying 'Construction Site - Keep Out'. No it isn't: the masts on top have long since been completed.
Ken Butcher: As I descended the lower slope, and not observing any gateways through the field to the car, I turned towards Monksfoot. From some 200 metres away a young woman came running towards me and wanted to know what I was doing in her back garden (she considered Common Hill her back garden). She saw me to the track and well past her cottage.
Ken Butcher: I drove from Dundee and turned south at Taynuilt to see deer fences with barbed wire and frequent 'Danger Deer Keep Out' notices. However, as I booted-up at the track end for Ballimore, a friendly shepherd suggested it would be safer to park the car 200 metres down the track, as forestry lorries used the public road. The December day was dreich so I drove to the mast at Gallanachmore. I had passed through three gates when I saw a car enter the property and then a whistle meant for me. Foolishly perhaps I retraced my steps to intimate my intentions, only to be met with 'no way, the access code is not law' etc. I drove to the adjacent croft, called Laggan (sea-diving and accommodation), and explained that his neighbour had refused access to my intended route. I was given instructions to cross the lawn to a gate, cross a field to a power-line pole, then dog-leg up the hill to the dyke (the boundary between the neighbours). It was not long before I deserted the heather and was over the dyke and on my intended track. I returned the same way to the car at Laggan.
Bill Fairmaner: Various 'Keep Out' signs on the track up from the east. Defaced. Obviously, I ignored them.
Jon Metcalf: Amazonian thorn and thicket along the ridge was enlivened by seeing a stoat near the trig point. An already unsatisfying route was then completely ruined by some jumped-up GOML on the way off.
Jon Foote: I had no problem after the Ludlow meeting - parked at SO622379, went up the little footpath to the ridge and along the path to both summits, reasonably well under cover unless you meet a GOML actually on it. It certainly should be a right of way, must have been in use for centuries.