Dumgoyne Hill - in my lunch break!

[2dalmatians]

Opened the curtains today to beautiful sunshine - not what I was expecting. Thought It would only last an hour or so. It didnt, it lasted all day!!! Got to just around 2pm and couldnt take anymore, grabbed the prepacked rucksack, a flask of tea, Ruby and we were off.

I am priviledged to live right at the gates of Scotland's "Walkers theme park" so it was only a 10minute drive to my favourite distillery!! Glengoyne.

This walk reminded me of Ben A'an. It's a little mountain in miniature!

Up and down in 90 minutes - ya beauty!!!

[BlackPanther]

That's not fair. I opened my curtains today to see heavy cloud and persistent rain And Beauly is only a wee bit further north! I guess we got all the winter, you got all the spring...
This hill looks interesting. A great little cracker with lovely views.

[mountain thyme]

nice one...i like this one.... someone from this site took me up this one before i was allowed out on a munro with them to see if i was fit enough!!!

[Lastofthesummerwine]

Lovely photos. You certainly had a nice day, been showery and dreich in Aberdeenshire, especially in the Inverurie area!

[quoman]

nice one 2dalmatians



the pics look good ruby fairly get about. it was a cracking day and i got as far as asda 2mins fi the house

[kevsbald]

Was also up the hills today - a bit colder over on Culter Fell but still a beautiful day - did you have a wee one from the distillery?

[Sarah86]

Lovely photos and what a beautiful dog you have, I will need to add this one to my list! We were up Dumyat today, beautiful but a cold wind at the top!

[DarrenJeffrey]

Silly question but I see a lot of these longer thinner pictures on reports, how would one achieve this? I presume it's camera dependant?

Thanks

[Sarah86]

Lovely photos and what a beautiful dog you have, I will need to add this one to my list! We were up Dumyat today, beautiful but a cold wind at the top!

What time were you up? I went up and down from Menstrie between about 12.00 and 1.30. Perhaps you were the couple I spoke to coming down as I was going up.

It was a great day for being up, the views across the forth were lovely. No that wasn't us, we went up after my work - set off from the car park on the Sheriffmuir road at about 2:30pm. Will need to try it from the Menstrie end as we always take the easier route lol

[jonny616]

Great wee hill. It was a bit different on Monday when i was up there with GLW amongst others.

[2dalmatians]

Thanks for the comments all.

DJ - think it is camera dependant. I use an Olympus Tough in panorama mode which means that I basically take 3 pictures and the camera edits them into 1.

Kev - No I didnt go for a dram. One of my friends is a supervisor at the distillery and if I had dropped in I'd probably still be there - at the back of the bonded warehouse recovering from a tasting session of the "angels share"!!

Johnny - what a difference a few days make! looks very cold and bleak on monday!!

[allansmitchell]

Think our dogs met as we were coming back from Earls seat and you were just about to start up Dumgoyne after crossing the fence/stream, what a great day it was

[Chrisabelle]

One day I will conquer this hill!
First time I tried I was new to this hill walking lark and failed miserably, was walking with a club that I won't name as I didn't find them very friendly and their reaction to my failed attempt (and 2 other women) was most uncomplimentary, I never went out with them again.
Second time I took my then 22yr old daughter, who only had trainers on, didn't make it to the top due to falling about laughing at her slip-sliding all over the place
One day I will conquer it!

[Redrock]

Aw, I wish I had gone out yesterday! It looks great up there! It looks a fine wee hill. I'll have to give it a go one day when I have a wee bit time to go hill-walking!

[2dalmatians]

Just a quick update to complete this walk report for my diary. Went out yesterday to bag Earls seat instead of heading to Killin - BBC weather predicting clear skies over central and rain/clouds in Killin- correct!!!. 3 hours total (not including Dumgoyne - went up the left flank and straight on to Earls seat). Very windy and very very boggy!! Views fabulous as always.

looking back to Dumgoyne

earls seat cairn - far right of pic