TO THE HILLS! THE OCHIL HILLS!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 มี.ค. 2022
- Sometimes you've just got to head for the hills; to leave the big city behind and cleanse your mind and body in Scotland's great outdoors. This small hill walk, mostly on wide hill-tracks, takes us from Menstrie into the Ochil Hills and down into Bridge of Allan. The initial plan to end elsewhere was altered during the walk, but I'll explain all that in due course. With constant views of the hill of Dumyat, we make our way through Menstrie Glen, by old steadings like Little Jerah and Jerah, and by Lossburn Reservoir towards the road to Sheriffmuir. From there we skirt Cocksburn Reservoir and descend into Bridge of Allan. The weather's fine and the air smells sweet. We're off on another adventure.
I am an Alloa boy, born in the Bridge of Allan (Airthrie Castle). After many years of living in Australia I still miss the Ochils where we used to walk and fish, I could actually see them from my 1st floor bedroom!
I'm sure that castle has an interesting history.
Not really, @@EdExploresScotland . It is a fine looking Victorian mansion, but has no notable history. It was used as a maternity hospital for many years, so a lot of local folk (self included) were born there. Now used as offices for Stirling University.
Just the ticket Ed, made me smile as usual. If your looking for ideas. How about, Greenock, Gourock to Inverkip. Braw on a sunny day. Aw the best..
Thanks David. Not quite the walk you suggest, but check out my video about a walk in that area:
th-cam.com/video/FcVrvFt0aXA/w-d-xo.html
Good to see you back in the hills great video
Cheers Robert.
Another great video, i have lived in Clackmannanshire all my life, i enjoy watching your videos, especially the ones about Alva.
Cheers. 👍
Great wee video Eddy cheers. Good stuff. All the best Andy
Thanks 👍
You’re videos are giving me great inspiration to get walking again. Been a couch potato for too long. Great camera work too. Thanks Ed.🤘🏼
Thanks Graham. The arrival of Spring always makes me feel I want to just walk and walk and walk and never ever stop.
Lovely location and looked like a great walk.
I am strangely drawn to the Ochil Hills, although it's maybe not so strange because they are quite simply stunning. Take care.
I have a book on walking in the Ochils due for publication in the next few weeks. I found that the Ordnance Survey maps for the area didn't show a lot of the paths around the hills. A better choice of map is the Harvey's Superwalker.
From the book: "Jerah was built in the late 18th century. Despite having no running water, it was occupied until the mid-1960s. The name is from the Gaelic dearg mhagh, meaning ‘Red Plain’."
Thanks for that Dougie. Even as I was saying it I sensed I wasn't quite right. Ordnance Survey has not always gone into remote hilly areas in detail. I'm fond of the detail that a twenty-five-inches-to-a-mile provides, but in remote areas the only map available is six-inches-to-a-mile. I've never heard of Harvey's Superwalker. I'm going to check it out. All the best with your book.
Glad to see you up a hill Eddie. Spring has arrived as you said . Best time of the year I think
Cheers Colin. Kinda hard not to get excited at this time of year and leap from your bed with unbridled enthusiasm.
The hills up the back of balloch are a good stretch of the pins. Same with the dumpling in gartocharn! Always a pleasure to watch your travels mate, take care!
Many thanks. Not sure if you missed it, but check my video of a walk in that area:
th-cam.com/video/3etM46pqAvE/w-d-xo.html
A very enjoyable watch, as always. Beautiful scenery, makes me want to dig out my walking boots.
Many thanks. Dig those boots oot! Spring has sprung!
Hi Eddy, really enjoyed this one!
The Ochil Hills and the surroundings are a truly scenic and beautiful part of Scotland, with so much important history around. It looks like on this day, you were sharing the countryside with other folk, all taking the opportunity of being out and about. I must commend you on the quality of your camera and overall production, the visuals are in stunning, HD quality. Thanks again Eddy, best regards, Rob.
Thanks Rob. Now shot footage for the walk I should have done. Probably will be uploaded this coming Friday. Take care.
Great video, very informative, love the history of the little buildings which I would have just walked by without realising ( airhead) Yes I think your analogy of getting away from Glasgow and a wife was quite astute, and I'm sure it works for a wife as well, cause she can get a bit of peace as well. Thanks for giving more ideas of walks, I did Alva Glen a couple of weeks ago and found it brutal but beautiful is this one a bit easier?
With an Ordnance Survey Landranger map (#s 57 & 58 in this case), you can see tracks and paths in the hills. Hard to know if this is easier than the Alva Glen walk. It's certainly different.
Hi Ed, I live in Clackmannanshire. My old primary six school teacher introduced me to hill walking. She told me that Jerah was inhabited as late as the sixties - during a stay in hospital she had met a woman who had lived there at that time. I might be remembering wrong, but I think it still had a roof when I was in my teens (I'm 47 now).
Many thanks Evelyn. I think you're more right than I am. Even as I was saying it I was thinking around the 1950s was probably more accurate, and I can well believe the 1960s.
A classmate of my father stayed at that farm.@@EdExploresScotland That must have been in the early 1940s. The farm was certainly semi-ruined when I first saw it about 1970.
if you turned right at the top of the farm road you were on at 20.16, the road takes you round and is signposted how to get to the "Sherramuir". Would have added a few miles onto your journey though.
I love the Ochils, some great places to camp namely ben Shee. Crackin vid as always. Cheers.
Many thanks. Hard to imagine a nicer bunch of hills than the Ochils.
Another excellent video, keep them coming
Cheers John.