Tinto – Hill of Fire
Tinto is the prized mountain of South Lanarkshire, the Sunday afternoon ascent for thousands of local families, with its imposing bulk providing a background view to their daily grind. Tinto is certainly a distinctive presence, a vast, solitary dome rising above a loop in the River Clyde to a height of 2,334 feet (711m). Having said that various heights are recorded because the summit is made artificially taller by one of the largest round cairns in Scotland, created by countless…