Balgreggie Craigs (Fife)

 19 March 2023

Where: Balgreggie Craigs, 138m/453', P 37m, Tump, OS 58, NT 232 969

A brief letup in the grey, damp weather so I headed to Fife to do bag this Tump. I parked in Kinglassie and followed a track to a farm, then another track to a couple of masts and then made my way through whins and rhododendrons to the high point beside an old wall. There was no view from the top but a good one to the Lomond hills from the mast. Not a very inspiring hill but at least I got a walk. View to Lomond hills from track and again from the masts.....

The summit area.....

Wether Hill (Ochil Hills)

 7 March 2023

Participants: Just me

Where: Wether Hill, 503m/1,650', P 117m, Hump, OS 58, NN 922 059

I had intended to climb Little Hill at Comrie but a road closure with a long diversion encouraged me to turn down Glendevon instead for another hill on my wanted list- Wether Hill in the north of the Ochil Hills range. I parked in the lay-by opposite the private road to Frandy Farm and followed that road for a couple of hundred metres or so to the start of a grassy track which I knew went to the top of Common Hill but in fact went all the way to a few metres short of the summit of Wether Hill. Just as well, it is tussocky ground in these parts. Looking back to Glendevon from Common Hill.....

From here, Wether Hill looked a long way off, although I found that appearances in this sort of landscape can be deceptive.....

There was soon a good view down to the valley and the Lower Glendevon reservoir.....

Similar view but with Wether Hill to the right.....

Getting closer......

Looking back to the start from close to the summit.....

Looking east from the summit, Bishop Hill in Fife middle distance.....

The Highland hills from the summit.....

Panorama of hills from Ben Lomond to (almost) the Ben Chonzie group.....

It was a pleasant walk, although the longest that I had done this year. I saw no-one else on what is the remotest part of the Ochil range.