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*For information about access rights in Scotland see the ScotWays website.
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 160 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Park on W side of road in a space big enough for a couple of vehicles at NX82647562. Walk N up road for 40m, then follow track W to junction at NX82187583. Take the right fork NW. This major vehicle track looks recently upgraded and continues high onto the hill and beyond to the NE. Due to high winds from the W we continued around to E of the summit on this excellent vehicle track to NX82347686. Then NW over easy ground following the easiest line we could find to the summit. | geralddavison | 12/03/2020 |
| From tight parking by the gate. Second visit on a fine, crisp morning | Colin Crawford | 09/12/2019 |
| From sign through gate and up. There are two gates in bwf. I took the left but the right looks shorter in hindsight. Very misty but nice to see the monument on my six hundredth Marilyn. | SS | 24/02/2019 |
| Unsure of date - during Feb 2019 | limelight986 | 10/02/2019 |
| From Glenkiln reservoir car park. We walked north along the road for 400m and took a left at the junction. At the junction, once upon a time, there was a Rodin sculpture. The Wikipedia page for Glenkiln sculpture park makes interesting reading. The sculpture is no longer there because one of the others was stolen. We walked past Shalloch and continued on the forest road for a further kilometre and a half to a T-junction. Here we took a left, the road deteriorating. After another 750m there is a narrow, wet track branching off on the right. This is shown on the 1:25000 (but not the 1:50000). We took that to the forest edge. From this point it is possible to follow ATV tracks (still within the forest boundary) until a stile over the wall is reached. We crossed that and then followed the wall on the other side through often marshy ground until a further junction of walls at the 350m mark. The wall here is easily surmounted and then you find your way up to the summit of Bennan and it | Clach Liath | 09/12/2018 |
| Car park at 839 784. Old gate to leave road at about 8420780. Follow wall almost to top, crossing at gate about 830 772 | PeteN | 03/06/2018 |
| Parked NX829763,no problems | G0HIO | 06/05/2018 |
| From gate to south as many others | Alan Caine | 25/03/2018 |
| A lovely walk on snow from the small forestry plantation, up the ATV track, step over the fence, then heather and grass to the top. Stunning views: blue skies and sunshine, and snowy hills all round. | Gill | 10/12/2017 |
| From near the large farm (too pink to think) at Glen. Up through fields aided by 3 gates to the wall which was followed to summit. Evening walk | N.Morters | 23/08/2017 |
| From SE along invisible Core Path, on to Craigelwhan. | agentmancuso | 28/05/2017 |
| From south east as others. Watch the first gate -not on its hinges- I couldn't stop it falling then fell on it and bruised my knee. In the clag today which made the navigation interesting where it gets pretty pathless after the fence. Did find the gate to save possible injury getting over the triple barbed wire fence onto open ground. | Mark Sims | 01/02/2017 |
| From the SE, direct line taken. About 300m from the road, a triple layered barbed wire fence with no obvious stiles. If slim, easier to go between the lowest barbed wire section and the regular wire mesh lower down, rather than trying to over the top. | Owen B | 03/11/2016 |
| Followed the non-existent path from the SE. | Chris Peart | 25/07/2016 |
| From gate at ......, like others. There is a signpost here now for Core Path 70 to the Turner Monument and another on the road 500m SW. I doubt if I followed the route though. I went through the gate onto the grouse moor then followed lines of shooting hides and beaters' (?)tracks to the cairn S of the monument and then to the top. Followed the wall E on the way down but didn't cross the stiles and kept to the W side of the burn. | pwheeler | 10/05/2016 |
| From car park at N end of Glenkiln Reservoir. Up mainly via forest tracks. Direct line taken down. Route and write-up at: http://gayleybird.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/marilyning-around-dumfries.html | Gayle | 06/05/2016 |
| Weather fair. | MountainMac | 03/02/2016 |
| Parked at 829762 and headed directly north west to Turners monument with GB. | bolton | 19/03/2015 |
| Roadside parking at W. side of small forest area (NX82957 76262) – Up 4x4 track to metal gate & then picked way along faint paths up through heather to Turner’s Monument. (PM) | gerrybowes | 19/03/2015 |
| parked at small wood at 829763 up south side of the wood, crossed fence, then wet ground to the top. | robertphillips | 09/11/2014 |
| Easy bag from the SE | AndrewFinnimore | 24/10/2014 |
| Solo | Uisdean25 | 06/10/2013 |
| Climb on grass from C class road just 300m SW of Glen. Walk to metal gate above small wood to save climbing fence. Operated for SOTA on HF/VHF. | G4OBK (Phil) | 01/10/2013 |
| From Glenkiln Reservoir, further than it looked from Bishop Forest Hill. Hill track rather vague higher up on rough heathery ground. | neimcv | 25/06/2013 |
| from 829763, i.e to w of forest. there is 4wd track much of way. enjoy the sculptures | Thearlaichdubh | 31/05/2013 |
| MC alone. | Martin66 | 29/08/2012 |
| W Jenx frm GR829762. Easily on pasture then track thru heather. 30 mins and great views. Back same way. | nordicstar | 06/05/2012 |
| Foggy, all the way to the monument | cjo | 06/01/2012 |
| Started from SE at 829762, initially on short grass through two gates, some rough heather higher up. | Topographer57 | 03/07/2011 |
| From reservoir car park. Sunny, warm, sharp wind, great views. | iangalbraith | 07/04/2011 |
| Started from laybey near farm. Walked through farm fields up to summit, very marshly insome places | biggaz777 | 27/03/2011 |
| Walked up from a copse of trees near Glen Farm over firm grass, following sheep trails, then down heading roughly east to Glenkiln in grass and heather which proved quite boggy. Could hear water flowing even when it looked dry. Surprisingly good views fro | borderterrier | 10/04/2010 |
| Parked past the pink Glen Farm on left below small conifer clump on right then thro' 2 gates then NW to summit over easy grass and occasional heather. 3rd M of morning during detour from Preston to Lanark | Dugswell2 | 13/02/2010 |
| good clear day | Tom Mundell | 01/01/2009 |
| From road to SE. Fairly rough ground, boggy in places to Turner's Monument on top. | Aye Jimmy | 14/02/2008 |
| Pleasant climb from S. Big memorial cairn (looks like a chimney) on top. | maknipe | 10/06/2007 |
| Ascended from the south east. The sculptures were a pleasant surprise. | JohnW | 08/08/2006 |
| six little Galloway gems | vegibagger | 10/09/2005 |
| Rain started for rest of day. Into mist on compass over vast rough wet moor. Butts loomed in mist. Forest edge came into view and followed SW edge to a wall. Gap on the crest and monument hove into view. 13.10. Bleak and lonely spot. | arranc | 28/10/2000 |
| A nasty little hill. From the road to the south slogged through various types of vegetation to get to Turner's Monument. | garyhoney | 22/07/2000 |
| easy damp plod, wide unremarkable view. from road (forest edge) 829763 | RHW | 23/10/1999 |
| Keeping up with Rob towards his 1,000th. | Eddie | 23/10/1999 |
| beckybags | 12/03/2020 | |
| A Peckish | 12/03/2020 | |
| m0untain_n0mad | 08/03/2020 | |
| tomandivy | 10/02/2020 | |
| duchally | 08/08/2019 | |
| Dave McG | 07/08/2019 | |
| PGCE | 26/05/2019 | |
| Simon Winton | 13/04/2019 |