Tuesday 31 January 2012

Lewis Hill and the North Third Reservoir

Although I love the open spaces of the hills, I also like a bit of variety for my walks. It had been a while since I wandered amongst trees so I tried to think of somewhere close to home that had an old forest of oak and beach trees....



Where moss and lichen grows in abundance....



Where the evergreen trees grow that thick and cover such a huge area that it is easy to get lost .....



Where silver birch grow in abundance on steep hillsides ...



Where I can let the dog off the lead with no fear of her chasing sheep....



Where there is a good chance of seeing roe deer, or at least finding lots of interesting scents if you are a dog ....



Where there is a trig point on top of a hill, surrounded with great views ....



Where there is lochs and burns...



Where there are lots of paths to follow...



Where there are lots of airy cliff views ...



Where the path weaves along the edge of the cliffs...



Where there are balancing boulders ....




Where you can stick a finger up at the world because it is Monday Morning and you are not working .....



I can only think of one place in Scotland like that and Im lucky that it is only four miles from my house.

I was walking on a four mile round trip of Lewis Hill and Suachie Craigs, at North Third Reservoir, near Stirling :-D

3 comments:

blueskyscotland said...

One of the few places in the Central Belt I,ve not been yet Donny though I,ve cycled past it several times.Looks like a cracking area and a nice day you had.
I watched 127 hours a few weeks ago.It would have been a much better film without the music video high energy fractured style.Must admit I looked away at the worst bit.Pretty graphic.

Douglas Wilcox said...

What a great location and photos, :o)

Donny Wilcox said...

Hi again guys :-D

Yup..the Lewis Hill walk is a very varied and scenic walk .. it must be as I did it three times last week..but there are enough paths to keep it interesting without going over old ground.

There are thousands of Greylag Geese all collecting there at present and they are having a "honking Time"

Douglas..hope you get your knees working again so we can do some of these walks together..as well as some more sea adventures :-D