Wallace's Stone , Glentye Hill , Mickle Corum

Decided to explore from the Dunblane side and parked the car down from the Sheriffmuir Inn and walked along the Balckford Road for a few hundred yards before following a fence line in to Wallace's Stone and onwards to Glentye Hill. This is the view of Glentye Hill on the left with Muckle Corum behind it. Snow still lying on the ground even though it is mid April

Looking back down towards the Sheriffmuir Inn with the hills seperated by Glen Tye valley

Top of Muckle Corum looking down towards Blackford - decided to follow the fence line down towards Little Corum

Decided to leave Little Corum for another day and loop round to pick up Black Hill as I returned to the road. Black Hill sits to the left of this small wooded area

Decided to have some fun in the snow on the way down and and as I walked through found myself up to my waist as the snow was covering a large chasm - a gentle reminder of the danger of snow hiding unseen dangers!

Once I left the woodland I walked all the way round the Black Hill without finding a way over the barbed wire fence - took a picture of it but lost the desire to get up - thats for another day too!

Not as picturesque as the Hillfoots side but got sight of Blairdenon when I was at the top of Mickle Corum and I'll be back to tackle this one day soon

13th April 2013 : Brown Hill , Loss Hill and Ashentrool

Two weeks of snow and a week in Tenerife have kept me away from the Ochils for a while so when Ian asked if I fancied a quick sortie to the Ochils on Saturday I was more than happy to oblige, We parked up on the Sheriffmuir Road and walked in on the path past Lossburn Reservoir . Dumyat was on our right and we decided to climb to the left up to Brown Hill and work our way back to the road via Loss Hill and then Ashentrool. As we climbed up to the top of Brown Hill this is the view of the reservoir looking down the hill

We reached the top and Ian poses with the imaginary flag being planted on the peak

As we walk along the ridge we get another perspective of Dumyat which I haven't seen before. For one wee hill its amazing how it can be seen in so many different ways. I met a woman on holiday who thought if you had seen one hill you had seen them all - absolutely untrue

Finally , another view of the reservoir as we work along the ridge

30th March - Dumyat

Kim and Will decided it would be good to get Oscar ( the dog) out in to the hills and let him off the leash to run around. Dumyat was the answer and so we took a quick run up on the Saturday afternoon. Still signs of the snow from the previous fortnight but Oscar wasn't tempted. Pictures of the proud mummy and daddy for the history book