12 June 2021
Participants: Just me
Where: Gallow Hill, 110m/361', P 43m, Tump, OS 57, NS 783 987
Very different from my last visit in winter 2018, the vegetation is very green this year. I took the train to Bridge of Allan, crossed the road from the station and picked up the track that goes to Dunblane. It started as a road past some houses and then became a good path between fields and hedges. A view of Gallow Hill.....
Where the path forked, I took a left and soon crossed a couple of stiles over a farm track. The path then contoured gently up the hill; there was a good view of Stirling from here with the Wallace Monument and Stirling Castle prominent.....
The rhododendrons were out.......
The summit area is in the trees to the right of the path, the actual high point is said to be the moss covered boulder in the bottom left of the photo.....
The trees are pretty thin here and it is easy to get through them to a grassy area from where there are good views of the Ochil hills to the east.....
and to the hills on the highland boundary fault o the north, Ben Ledi on the left and Stuc a'Chroin and Ben Vorlich on the right.....
A pleasant short walk.
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