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Last updated:
09/01/13
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Hills: Corserine, Millfire, Milldown, Meikle Millyea Date: Sunday 26th April 2009 Company: Myself and Beinn Time: 5Hrs 10Mins Dog friendly: Yes Having failed to get up Queensberry on Saturday owing to being chased off the hill by thunder and lightning, and being charged at by a crazed cow, I set off nice and early on Sunday arriving at the Forrest Estate car park at just after 7.00am. The Do’s and Don’ts of Forrest Estate: 
The various forest tracks are well sign-posted with many of the tracks having “street names” named after people. I decided on an anti-clockwise circuit and therefore set off along the track sign-posted for “Fore Bush”. Track towards Fore Bush: 
A few hundred metres after Fore Bush the first of a number of “Hillwalkers: Stile over Deer Fence” signs can be found. It is definitely worth following these signs as they lead you to a stile over a small fence and a gate and lead you to the start of a faint track that can be followed pretty-much all the way to the summit of Corserine. Follow the ‘Hillwalker stile’ signs: 
The ascent of Polmaddy Gairy is gentle at first with a short steeper section around 600m. Looking back to forest from lower slopes of Polmaddy Gairy: 
Polmaddy Gairy: 
The final stretch to the summit of Corserine is fairly flat. Thankfully we found the summit trig point without difficulty given we were wandering along in low-cloud. Summit of Corserine: 
From the summit of Corserine we descended SSE along the grassy ridge towards Millfire. I was surprised to find a well-built stone shelter on the way to Millfire (much larger than the small cairn to be found at the summit of Corserine) Dry-stane shelter en-route to Millfire: 
We continued along the ridge to eventually reach Millfire and then on to the two Donalds – Milldown and Meikle Millyea. Summit of Millfire: 
Start of dry-stane dyke en-route to Milldown: 
Summit of Milldown: 
As we approached Meikle Millyea we got our first views of the day as the clouds began to disperse. Lochans of Auchniebut: 
Summit cairn and trig point of Meikle Millyea: 
From Meikle Millyea, we descended to Meikle Lump and down to the start of the track leading back to the Forrest Estate car park. Looking down to Meikle Lump: 
View back to Meikle Millyea: 
View back to Milldown and Millfire: 
View back to Corserine: 
Start of track leading back to Burnhead and Forrest Estate car park: 
Dungeon Loch: 
The final four kilometres back out to the car were nice and easy along good track. Burnhead:  |
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