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The Mountain Print

Ben Lomond, in its own contour lines.

The most southerly Munro, drawn from its own terrain: Ben Lomond rising straight out of Loch Lomond, its summit ridge curving above a steep north-eastern corrie, and the top marked at 974 metres.

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The Mountain Print of Ben Lomond: the mountain in its own contour lines, every fifth one heavier, the summit marked at 974 m, the name and the coordinates beneath
Ben Lomond, 8 km across · Contours · A3 · black frame
Height 974 m · 3,196 ft The frame 8 km across at the default Where Loch Lomond · Scotland Summit 56.1906° N · 4.6332° W
What the print holds

Ben Lomond on paper

Loch Lomond fills the western side of the sheet as a long blank shape, because water is flat and no contour crosses it. From the shore the ground climbs hard — the lines along the eastern bank of the loch are among the closest on the print — and then eases into the long southern shoulder that the tourist path follows up from Rowardennan, near the bottom of the frame.

The summit sits on a curving ridge, and the rings around it are drawn tight on one side and loose on the other. North-east of the top the ground falls away into a steep corrie, a bowl of crowded lines; to the south-west the slope is long and gentle. The Ptarmigan ridge runs out to the north-west towards the loch, a second, lower shoulder with its own small knot of rings.

East of the mountain the land is lower and rounder, drawn as looser, wandering lines across open moor, so the Ben reads as the one big thing on the sheet with the loch at its feet. The loch's surface is only a few metres above the sea, which means the whole height of the mountain is on the print, from the water's edge to the summit, and none of it is hidden below the frame.

With a line every twenty metres, the heavy ones fall on each round hundred, and the highest of them on this sheet is the nine-hundred-metre ring around the summit ridge; everything above it is the final pull to the top.

What to frame

Each opens the Studio already framed about the summit. Widen it, close in, or drag the print to move it; the contour interval follows the ground in the frame.

3 km acrossThe summit ridge and the corriethe top of the mountain and the steep north-eastern face below it. 8 km acrossBen Lomondthe mountain from the loch shore to the summit, with Rowardennan at the southern edge. 24 km acrossAcross the loch to the Arrochar Alpsthe loch in the middle, the Ben on one side and the Cobbler's jagged hills on the other.

Three ways to draw Ben Lomond

The same terrain each time, and every palette in the Studio on top of it.

Ben Lomond as the Contours treatment of The Mountain Print
ContoursThe mountain in its own contour lines, every fifth one heavier.
Ben Lomond as the Relief treatment of The Mountain Print
ReliefThe same lines over the light and shade of the slopes, lit from the north-west.
Ben Lomond as the Night contours treatment of The Mountain Print
Night contoursA dark sheet, the lines in light, the summit marked in the accent.
How it works

From the Studio to your wall in three steps.

The Heatmap print: a year of London runs layered into one map of familiar roads
Step 01

Choose your subject

Connect Strava in one tap for a race, a ride or a whole year. Or search for a place, type a postcode for your street on the old Ordnance Survey, or add a photograph — none of those needs an account.

The Contours print: a year of runs drawn as density contours, the ground darkest where the miles repeat
Step 02

Choose your style

Start from a finished design and make it yours: the words, the colours, the size. Twenty-three styles for your own miles, four treatments for a place, six layouts for a photograph, and the old survey as drawn or in your colours.

The Distance rings print: one ring for every activity of the year, the longer arcs the longer days
Step 03

We print and frame it

Pick a frame, check out, and it is printed to order on fine-art paper, framed by hand and posted to you, tracked.

Ben Lomond print: the questions

Is Ben Lomond a Munro?

Yes. A Munro is a Scottish mountain over three thousand feet, and at 974 metres — 3,196 feet — Ben Lomond is the most southerly of them.

Why is the loch empty on the print?

A contour is a line of equal height, and the surface of a loch is all one height, so no line crosses it. The water is left as paper, which is also how the eye expects to see it.

Can I mark Rowardennan?

Add it as a named point and it is drawn at the shore where the path begins. The print itself draws the ground only, never paths or buildings.

Where do the contours come from?

From public elevation data — the Terrain Tiles Mapzen built and AWS Open Data hosts, which join SRTM and national terrain models — traced into lines by the Studio as you frame the print, about sixty of them from the lowest ground in the frame to the highest. Nothing is drawn by hand. The height beside the summit is Ben Lomond’s surveyed one, not a figure read off the grid.

Can I print a hill that is not on this list?

Yes. Search the Studio for any hill by name and it is drawn the same way, framed with the ground around it. The print then carries its name and coordinates but no height: a height on a poster should be the surveyed figure, and the grid is too coarse to supply one.

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Ben Lomond, on the wall.

Compose it free in the Studio: the frame, the treatment, the palette and your own words beneath. Order it when it is the mountain you mean.

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