Montague Hill (NO 196285, 227m) Beal Hill (NO 203273, 257m) Evelick Hill (NO 199257, c270m) Pole Hill (NO 195260, 288m) 17.9 kilometres 580m of ascent So, another little segment in my exploration of the Braes of the Carse. This time I parked in the Glen of Rait, in a little pull-off below the crags of … Continue reading Braes Of The Carse: Glen of Rait to Den of Pitroddie
Dron Hill (NO 288321, 211m) 12 kilometres210 metres of ascent Dron Hill is an outlier of an outlier of the Sidlaws. I didn’t include it in my Sidlaws Gazetteer because it felt like it might be one of the Braes of the Carse, but it actually doesn’t feel like it belongs there either. Either way, … Continue reading Dron Hill: The Hard Way
Kinnoull Hill (NO 136228, 222m) Deuchny Hill (NO 152236, 232m) Murrayshall Hill (NO 164253, 279m) Westhill (NO 169237, 213m) Taymount (NO 167228, 154m) Binn Hill (NO 157226, c165m) 17.2 kilometres 643m of ascent Another exploration of the Braes of the Carse, this time their extreme western end above Perth. As with my previous walk in … Continue reading Braes Of The Carse: Kinnoull to Murrayshall
Swirlhead Hill (NO 210283, 257m) Hill of Franklyden (NO 214300, 303m) Hoole Hill Southwest Top (NO 221305, 277m) Hoole Hill (NO 226310, 297m) Pittmiddle Hill (NO 236298, 279m) Kinnaird Hill (NO 231292, 250m) Craighead (NO 234281, 167m) 19.8 kilometres 665m of ascent So, it’s been a while since I had one of my free-style walks, … Continue reading Braes Of The Carse: Fingask Circuit
To skip the introduction and go straight to the gazetteer, click on a letter below: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z GEOGRAPHY The Sidlaws range consists of: a main ridge, running roughly west-east in the … Continue reading A Photographic Gazetteer of the Sidlaw Hills: Introduction
Radiation fog sounds like something that might occur during a nuclear winter, but it’s not that kind of radiation. The radiation here is heat radiation—infrared wavelengths radiated by the ground during the night, particularly when the skies are clear. Usually, the air temperature gets lower as you get higher—a rising packet of air expands and … Continue reading Radiation Fog
After Isaac Asimov had written 99 books, he wrote Opus 100, which was a book about his previous books. That was … well, a very Asimov kind of thing to do. I was reminded of Asimov and Opus 100 when the WordPress software informed me I’d just made my 99th post to this blog. I find … Continue reading Opus 100
Beinn Mheadhonach (NN 880758, 901m) 23 kilometres 950 metres ascent So, a bit of a change from the micro-level route-finding that’s been preoccupying me in the Sidlaws. This one’s a big, striding hill, tucked up the back of Blair Atholl, in that rather nebulous region referred to as “the Grampians”. The name of the hill … Continue reading Glen Tilt: Beinn Mheadhonach
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