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On another website looking for some more local walk options given Angus is in Tier 3, I found a route heading up to St Arnold's Seat in Glenogil. This hill stands out with a very visible cairn on the top but not the easiest to find anywhere to park near to go up it so I decided to give this route a try, with a bit of modification to just take in the hill. I took the turning just on the other side of Memus (signposted Burnside Farm) and followed the road all the way to the end. There was very limited places to park but found space on the verge between a grassy track to a cottage and a gate and just hoped my car was okay there! We followed the track through the gate turning onto another track to the right which ends at a gate and we then followed a wall, but at a fence a gap that I guess people used maybe for dogs was blocked off, probably because there has recently been sheep in the field, and getting the dogs to jump over wasn't the easiest but they managed it. This was the only real difficulty on the route but I did find an alternative for the descent. The wall leads to a grassy track which goes passed the ruined cottage at Anniegathel - there is a clear ATV track here heading back down through the trees and it is this I used for the return however it does pass through sheep fields, fortunately there were no sheep there when I used this for our return so no problems there and we could go that way to get back to the return track.
We followed the track passed the cottage and round a young woodland of native trees safely behind a deer fence passing through a couple of gates to reach a landrover track, here we did a dog-leg onto another track ignoring the fork to Baikies (we used this on the descent) and instead following the route alongside Took's Burn. The track passes through a gate into the forestry. After walking through the forest for a short distance we turned sharp left following a steep uphill fork taking a right at the top, the track heading downhill and we lost a bit of ascent leaving the forest and just beyond a gate turning to take a track to the left and then a bit higher up taking a track to the right that went passed some grouse butts. Though it doesn't show it on the map, this track leads all the way to the summit of St Arnold's Seat topped with a massive cairn. There were views down to Glenogil and across Angus. From the summit we went through a gate onto a fairly clear ATV track going through the heather, again not marked on the map but it is there. On the map there is a track marked and the ATV track heads to it. The track turned at a point heading the wrong way and I stopped, the good visibility meant I could see the track I wanted and I realised I had stopped right where a very faint ATV track headed down to it and so avoided having to walk across heather. Though initially hard to spot the track becomes clearer as it descends to the track on the map. We followed the track all the way to the ruins at Baikies and the return route to the car with the variation I mentioned above.
This was an enjoyable circuit, just need to find a way round with the dogs that avoids the sheep fields as I'd rather not take the dogs through those. It looks as if it could be possible to head further up the main track and cut across just before the track fords the burn, in satellite images it does look as if there is a faint track following the fenceline at least part of the way so that could be an alternative.
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