Managed to get away sharp and although the nights are noticably drawing in now, there was still plenty time for a quick circuit of this one.
Parked in the car park in the centre of the village of Luthrie and headed out onto the main road through the village before continuing straight ahead at the bend and onto the track past the collection of farm buildings on the left. The stench coming out of the various sheds and buildings was positively stomach churning and was more than enough to inject a bit of pace into my gait along the road.
Leaving the foul stench behind, I turned right at the T-junction and then began the steady climb round to the left and up past the doocot in the field on the left. Beyond the house at Carphin the track bent right then left through a gate and up onto more open moorland, although still scattered with bits of old rusting farming hardware. A faint path then leads off to the right along the base of the crags and descends between two patches of forestry to a good track which skirts around the base of the summit cone of Norman's Law. The pull up to the summit is steep but short-lived and the views from the trig-point, cairn and view indicator adorned summit are quite special.
I spent a good 20 minutes or so taking in the views and simply relaxing with my back to the trig pillar gazing across the river to Dundee and Craigowl Hill, a place that will always hold a very special and dear place in my heart after the events of March, before descending back to the track, where gorse clearing operations were taking place, and then following the circuit route described on here by turning right onto the track and following some fairly vague paths and directions back to the houses at Wester Kinsleith where I picked up a track that bends back to the T-junction near the farm at the start.
- Welcome to Luthrie
- Luthrie village hall
- Stinky farm - quick march!
- Cottage at T-junction
- Cattle by the doocot
- Views of the rolling North Fife farmland
- Lots of machinery and hardware kicking around
- The route ahead to my destination
- The Lomonds
- Norman's Law beyond the forestry
- Crossing the good track just before the final push
- Dundee across the Firth of Tay with the Tay Bridge on the far right and magical Craigowl Hill to the left
- Those Lomonds again
- More views North East
- Cairn, trig pillar and Lomonds
- Never seen one of these on a summit cairn before
- Upriver towards Perth
- Self timed #1
- Self timed #2
- Where's the path gone?
- Hello!
- Different angle on Norman's Law
- Norman's Law from Wester Kinsleith
