Broad Law, 8th November 2026
The past couple of weekends have been marked by a huge storm, keeping me off the hills, and the Tinto Hill Race on Halloween. Tinto was on a beautiful day, but I did lose a few minutes to my time from 2023. It did feel appropriate to run it this year given how much time I'd been spending in the hills south of the Central Belt. The one remaining Corbett for me in the south was Broad Law, so when Sunday rolled around, I had an opportunity to get out for a few hours and the conditions were decent too. I left Glasgow just after 0815 and headed south on the M74 in the wee car again, passing through a few heavy showers on the way. I followed the road past the Talla Reservoir and up a steep hill then parked at a barn a bit beyond the start point. I ran up the road at 0955 and onto the open hill, gaining quite a bit of ascent and then met the fence line as it started to even out on Cairn Law. Conditions were decent, it was warm enough and there was a light breeze, with no rain. Around the...
