Mailer Hill (Perth)

19 September 2017

 

Participants: Neil and Ben

Where: Mailer Hill, 182m/597', Hump, OS 53, NO 101 210

 

Mailer Hill can be seen from most directions as you approach or are in Perth; it is the hill with telecommunications masts on the west side of the motorway.....
 

 

There is a high car park on its east side so the amount of climbing required is minimal. The views from the car park were pretty good.....

The motorway has been driven through the hill so after a short walk through the wood, the path drops down to a pedestrian bridge over the road before rising again through more woodland and joining a track which comes up from the west......

There were cows in the field that contains the summit so I tied Ben to the fence before making my way into the field and up to the trig, which was being used as a scratching pole.....
 

 

 

It was a great viewpoint. Perth with the Grampians distant.....

west towards Stirling with the Ochils on the left and the familiar shapes of Ben Vorlich and Stuc a'Chroin distant right.....

and across Fife to the Ochils.....
 

 

If you have an hour or so to spare in Perth on a clear day then this is a really worthwhile walk.