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Pentland Hills and their Geocaches

Pentland Hills and their Geocaches


Postby weatherman » Sun Mar 18, 2012 10:40 pm

Route description: Scald Law and Carnethy Hill, Flotterstone

Sub 2000' hills included on this walk: Scald Law

Date walked: 17/03/2012

Time taken: 7 hours

Distance: 12.25 km

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Flotterstone car park, with heated toilets and hot running water. There is a Geocache on each of the summits, makes the walk a bit more interesting, especially when the hills are as busy as these one's, the point is to find the cache without been seen.
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Turnhouse Hill
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Turn left, over bridge, and follow path. There is a cache nearby
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looking back from the slope of Turnhouse Hill
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nearing summit, Carnethy Hill, Scald Law and Loganlea Reservoir
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Summit of Turnhouse Hill, Carnethy Hill in the background
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Heading towards Carnethy Hill
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path up
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looking back towards Turnhouse Hill from Carnethy Hill
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Summit Carnethy Hill
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view back to Carnethy Hill from path leading to Scald Law
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Black Hill, Loganlea Reservoir
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Scald Law summit Trig
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detour to South Black Hill to log a cache there
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East and West Kip from South Black Hill
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Path up East Kip
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looking back to Scald Law,Carnethy Hill from East Kip
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West Kip from East Kip
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Summit West Kip, looking back along path
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follow path down off West Kip to join path that leads back to The Howe and back to the car park.
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The Howe
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greats days walking, and 6 caches logged :D
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Re: Pentland Hills and their Geocaches

Postby blueyed » Mon Mar 19, 2012 1:32 pm

oh, i saw you guys! :)
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