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Photographs of an ascent of Ben Venue

from Ledard farm on Loch Ard

in the Trossachs Region of the Scottish Highlands

Ascent of Ben Venue from Loch Achray


Ben Lomond from Loch Ard



Ledard Farm at start of route to Ben Venue

Ledard Farm at start of route to Ben Venue





Waterfall on Ledard Burn

Waterfall on Ledard Burn



Loch Ard on ascent to Ben Venue

Loch Ard on ascent to Ben Venue





Ben Vane, Ben Ledi and Loch Achray from summit of Ben Venue

Beinn Bhreac on ascent to Ben Venue




Waterfall on Ledard Burn

Waterfall on Ledard Burn






Loch Katrine from Summit of Ben Venue

Beinn Bhreac on ascent to Ben Venue





Loch Katrine on ascent to Ben Venue

Loch Katrine on ascent to Ben Venue





Ben Venue

Ben Venue





Summit ridge of Ben Venue

Summit ridge of Ben Venue





Summit ridge of Ben Venue

Ben Ledi and Loch Achray and Loch Venacher

from summit of Ben Venue





Ben Lomond and Bheinn Bhreac from summit of Ben Venue

 Ben Lomond and Bheinn Bhreac

from summit of Ben Venue




Ben Venue from Craigmore above Aberfoyle

Ben Venue from Craigmore





Ben Venue from Ben Aan

Ben Venue from Ben Aan




Ben Venue from Ben A'an

Ben Venue from Ben A'an







Ben Venue from Craigmore above Aberfoyle

Ben Venue from Craigmore





Ponies on Ledard Farm at Loch Ard

Ponies on Ledard Farm at Loch Ard





Ben Venue - Map

Ben Venue - Map


Ben Venue - Route Map

Ben Venue - Route Map





Ben Venue - Route Map

Ben Venue - Route Map




Route Description and Map for Ben Venue

Route Description and Map for Ben Venue





BEN VENUE - ROUTE DESCRIPTION:



Location: Ben Venue, Trossachs
Grade: Moderate hill walk
Distance: 7 miles/12km
Time: 5-6 hours

Away to the west, streaks of yellow light lit up the darkening sky while below, Loch Katrine stretched out through the rough and tumbled landscape of the Trossachs. In the north-west the Crianlarich hills bowed their heads to the higher tops of Stob Binnein and Ben More and further east the Ben Lawers range all but dwarfed its neighbouring Tarmachans.
The twin tops of Stuc a’Chroin and Ben Vorlich stood clear, their highest slopes still topped by the winter’s snow. 
The summit of Ben Venue is one of the finest viewpoints in the Southern Highlands
.
Ben Venue is sometimes said to be “the Hill of the Caves” and, with its twin tops, western outliers and craggy countenance, it lords over the rugged landscape of the legend-rich
Trossachs.
There are whispers of the past in every notch and cranny of these hills. The slopes that tumble from the summit of Ben Venue down towards
Loch Katrine are breached by the Bealach nan Bo, the Pass of the Cattle, an ancient trade route for stolen cattle, driven back from the lowlands to the Macgregor lands at Glengyle. And below the bealach lies knobbly Coire na Urisgean, the corrie of the goblins.
Sir Walter Scott, who found so much inspiration in the
Trossachs, depicted the goblin’s corrie as a retreat for Ellen Douglas and her father after they had withdrawn from Roderick Dhu’s stronghold on Eilean Molach. An even older account suggests this corrie was the meeting place for all the goblins in Scotland. According to Scenery of the Southern Confines of Perthshire (1806), “the solemn meetings of the order were regularly held in this cave of Benvenew”. Most people climb Ben Venue from Ledard Farm on the B829 Aberfoyle to Inversnaid road, and from the roadside signposts point the way seven miles to the Trossachs via the summit of Ben Venue.
A good track runs past Ledard Farm and passes a little pool and waterfall where Scott apparently liked to come to work on his notes for Rob Roy and Waverley. A footbridge crosses the Ledard Burn, in its lower stretches this path can be extremely
boggy, but it improves considerably as you climb higher With the trees left behind, the hill gradually rises northwards onto
the eastern slopes of one of Venue’s outliers, Beinn Bhreac. Here, a wide bealach introduces the craggy slopes of Ben Venue itself and the first views begin to impress themselves. On steeper ground now, the footpath begins to switchback, weaving its way between rocky outcrops to reach the first, and higher, of Ben Venue’s two summits at 727m / 2380ft. The view across
Loch Katrine to the Loch Lomond hills and the peaks of the Arrochar Alps was outstanding. The path winds its way through the summit outcrops and shortly after reaches Venue’s twin top - only two metres separate the two tops. With the view opening up eastwards now, out along the silvery lengths of Loch Achray and Loch Venachar to the Menteith Hills, it was hard to understand the thinking behind the hill’s original name. In an old Statistical Account, the hill is recorded as A’Bheinn Mheanbh, the small peak.



ROUTE PLANNER

Map: OS Sheet 57 (Stirling & The Trossachs) or Harveys Walkers Map: Ben Venue, Loch Ard Forest & The Trossachs.
Distance: About 7 miles/12km.
Approx Time: 57 hours.
Start / Finish: Ledard Farm on B829 Aberfoyle to lnversnaid (GR: NN459024).
Information: Aberfoyle TIC, 01887 382352.

Route: From Ledard take the path N through the forest and then below the shoulder of Beinn Bhreac in a rough NE direction.
Ignore the path that drops away to the SE to Gleann Fliabhach and continue in a NE direction.
The path begins to zig—zag up some steeper ground before reaching the summit of Ben Venue.
From the summit continue SE for a few hundred metres to the trig point on the hill’s SE top.
Retum the same way.


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