This website is not a Munros hillwalking guide. The highest hill featured here is Duncolm, the highest point in West Dunbartonshire at 1316 feet/401 meters.
I have added some links to the Munro bagging Paisley and Inverclyde Ramblers on the front page of this website.

These walks here are somewhere between walking to the pub/the park/the shops and serious hill walks. The type of walks which are best suited for the casual walker and those who want to start/live a healthier life. Walks for those, like myself, who are recovering from a serious illness or a lifestyle illness. Walks for those who want to explore the local scenery and wildlife.

The walks here are on small roads, disused railways, gravel or well-defined paths.

These walking routes are therefore also suitable for running/jogging and Nordic Walking combined with some great scenery.

What these walks have is some great scenery and wildlife. Scenery well away from the hordes of tourists. Scenery you can and will enjoy alone or together with some friends and the local animals.

The walks are between 2 miles / 3 km and 15 miles / 23 km long. These walks go through the best of what this area has to offer of scenery. These are landscapes I want to share with everyone as it has given me and still is giving me so much joy.

The whole purpose of this website is to encourage everyone to live a better, healthier lifestyle.

These walks was undertaken/walked during my recovery between 2024 and 2026 from a serious illness. These walks, and a bariatric surgery, includes a weight loss of 70 kilos/10 stones.

All my walks are based on public transport, which in this area is both excellent and cheap. For every walk, links to the public transport has been added. Parking space information has also been added.







My name is Torodd Fuglesteg. I was born in Norway. My two grandfathers were mountain guides and hill farmers. Trekking, skiing and angling were my main interests when I grew up. I went skiing, angling, running, cycling and walking in my local mountains and later when I was posted in the Army up in the far north of Norway. I crossed the big glaciers and climbed the high mountains. I climbed the famous Trollstigen and visited Bergen, Narvik, Geiranger and the North Cape on my bike. That was many decades ago.

I am no longer a hillwalker. Neither am I pretending that I am one. I am now a middle-aged/old man who moved from Norway to Scotland in 1996. I continued to cycle here in Scotland and during my years in Northern Ireland.
I gave up cycling 15 years ago. Many years with inactivity and self-destruction followed. The kilos piled on and I became serious ill. An illness I am now recovering from. These walks was, both physically and mentally, my way of recovering from this illness. I am still recovering. I have become a Born Again GymRat too. And I have reconnected with the one I am and the one I want to be for the rest of my life.

I also want to give something back to NHS Glasgow for the operation and their very helpful, kind treatment they have given me and continue to give me. I am most grateful to them for giving me a new, longer life.




Unless stated, none of these walks is serious off-road walks that require serious footgear and other equipment. Walking poles are in most cases not required, although most of these walks are also excellent for Nordic Walking.
Good walking shoes are highly recommended as the walks are on tarmac and hard surface. A small rucksack with plenty of drink, sunscreen, high protein bars/bananas, towel, cap/sun visor, midge and nettle sting repellent are strongly recommended.

Although this is not a walking group, I am more than happy for anyone to join me on my walks, weather and time permitted. I am more than happy to facilitate walking groups if there is any interest in that. Please email me.
Let me also add that Gillian's Walks, Paisley Ramblers and Inverclyde Ramblers are already offering some good walks and companionship, although their walks are on a different level than my kind of walks.

The walks are mostly on small roads, fenced off from the local farm animals.

Please respect and be friendly to the local farm animals. Do not feed them chocolate or any food as this can be fatal to even big farm animals. Talk to them in a friendly tone and do not scare them away. A sleeping animal is a happy animal. Don’t wake them up. We, walkers are only guests in their area and in their lives. If you see some farm animals in distress/difficulties, please immediately notify the local farmer/the local police.



All photos were taken by myself by a Samsung Galaxy 15 mobile phone camera. A selfie-stick was used on the portrait photos.
All the pictures have been taken using the click-and-hope-for-the-best method. I am by no means a good photographer.
Please name this website and me as a source if you are copying the photos.



All opinions expressed on this website are my own opinions... And I am not perfect. If you find any errors in this website, please email me and I will be more than happy to correct any factual errors. All feedback is also more than welcome to my email address. I will try to add a contact forum to the website.

All walks undertaken are your own responsibility. I have to the best of my ability, highlighted any objective dangers on these walks. Please always use common sense. Follow your instincts and the warning signs from your body. There is no shame in breaking off a walk and calling a friend/taxi/ambulance.

This website is not going to win any prizes for best website of the year. This is a website where the walks are everything. This is a website which is meant to get people off their sofas and into the great scenery here in Strathclyde (and the canals). Hence this rudimentary layout. “Less is more”, is the web design philosophy on this website.

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