Beinn Dubh, Argyll and Bute: 'It'll take you a while to climb it, simply because you’ll have to stop repeatedly to admire the view'

Annunciata Elwes takes a look at the magnificent view from Beinn Dubh, found in the Luss Hills in Argyll and Bute.

Beinn Dubh by Loch Lomond.
Beinn Dubh by Loch Lomond.
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Despite the proximity of Loch Lomond and its ‘bonnie, bonnie banks’, the feeling of remoteness when up with the buzzards some 2,156ft above sea level is powerful.

Beinn Dubh (Black Mountain) is at the start of a horseshoe ridge that encircles Glen Striddle with an easy ascent rising from the village of Luss.

The footpath leading from the village of Luss.

However, it’ll take you a while to climb it, simply because you’ll have to stop repeatedly to admire the view over Loch Lomond, Ben Lomond, the Arrochar Alps and the rest of the Trossachs.

Once you've scaled the peak, you can carry on along the horseshoe to Mid Hill or descend the way you came.

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Annunciata Elwes

Annunciata grew up in the wilds of Lancashire and now lives in Hampshire with a husband, two daughters and an awful pug called Parsley. She’s been floating round the Country Life office for more than a decade, her work winning the Property Magazine of the Year Award in 2022 (Property Press Awards). Before that, she had a two-year stint writing ‘all kinds of fiction’ for The Sunday Times Travel Magazine, worked in internal comms for Country Life’s publisher (which has had many names in recent years but was then called IPC Media), and spent another year researching for a historical biographer, whose then primary focus was Graham Greene and John Henry Newman and whose filing system was a collection of wardrobes and chests of drawers filled with torn scraps of paper. During this time, she regularly gave tours of 17th-century Milton Manor, Oxfordshire, which may or may not have been designed by Inigo Jones, and co-founded a literary, art and music festival, at which Johnny Flynn headlined. When not writing and editing for Country Life, Annunciata is also a director of TIN MAN ART, a contemporary art gallery founded in 2021 by her husband, James Elwes.