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We start our walk in February from the car park at Queen's View. To begin with it is very steep
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Soon we have a view down to the carpark and across to the Campsies
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To the North we can see Loch Lomond and the hills surrounding it...
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...particularly Ben Lomond
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To the East, Dumgoyne (to the left) juts out from the Campsies
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At the top of the slope, we climb a stile
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The path continues in shadow on the north side of the hill for a while, but then we climb up into the sunshine
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At the summit is a cairn. The highest hills to the north have a touch of snow, but not as much as usual for this time of year
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The weather looks bad to the north and Ben Lomond is blotted out, so we won't go much further
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From the cairn, a track leads down to the Whangie itself
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Soon we come to the first rocky outcrops
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The Whangie consists of a number of rocky flakes which are very popular with rock climbers
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Between the flakes are narrow clefts
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The weather in the distance is worsening all the time and a shower is passing by
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Ben Lomond is now clear, but we'd still better hurry back to the car park
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