Lockdown and restrictions still in force so we are still on the Tump trail. Keeping within the rules we are venturing just outside Fife into Perth and Kinross, on the menu this time are 7 hills. We are now very familiar with Glenfarg, over the last few weeks we have been through Glenfarg over 10 times which is more than the past 50+ years.
Here is the menu:

Cloven Craigs, 282m
West Dron Hill, 293m
Glenearn Hill, 297m
Culteuchar Hill, 313m
Eastfield Hill, 243m
Glenfarg Head, 217m
Arlick Hill, 307m

Cloven Craigs, West Dron Hill, Glenearn Hill and Culteuchar Hill



Looking back towards the start


One of the older diggers


The smoke as we got nearer was not very pleasant


The Lomond Hills - early morning shot


We discussed what the purpose of smoke screen was, I reckoned it was maybe to keep the crows and other livestock predators


We wished we had face masks with us


As windfarms go, this one is tiny


Our first hill Clovens Craig is the slight hump not far away


The cairn on Clovens Craig


The Lomonds from Clovens Craig


Been parked in situ for a while


One of the through fences


Not sure what that has been digging?


This is about as close as we got to the "green machines", somehow managed to catch the sun and the moon


Quite a few sheep heading somewhere - away from us


Never seen this design of style before


Undulating and varied terrain


Looking east down the River Tay


We would be heading towards the forest shortly


Dron Hill summit which wasn't on our planned route, but gave us great views


Nice new gate


Plenty of recent planting


We would be heading round the forest, then turning left into it


Large puddle or small lochan?


One of George's zoomed photo - Tay Estuary


Heading downhill on the track round the forest - Bridge of Earn in the distance


Looking back as we start ascending again


Just managed to catch the young deer before it headed into the trees


Looking north from West Dron Hill


West Dron Hill summit


A caravan that has seen better days


We wondered how it got there in the first placed


If you collect fir cones this is a place to head to


We could even be in the Borders


The gorse was tinder dry and we were scanning ahead looking for a gate or an easy place to get over the fence


No gate looking down that way


Looking east again


Flat farming ground looking north


Summit of Glenearn Hill, George dug out the dod of wood and stood it up


Plenty of ruins in Perthshire


Different angle


The trig on top of Culteuchar, we have a fence to negotiate first


Only trig of the day


One of the high numbers - George informed me


Looking east


The Lomonds with a few turbines in the way


Another large puddle or small lochan


Plenty of these again today


Final descent down to the car


Typical Perthshire scenery

Eastfield Hill



Farm buildings, but no farmhouse


Looking down from just below the summit of Eastfield Hill, Eastfield Farm house in amongst the trees


Summit is just beside the wooden shed


Quite a new building, George had a peep inside through the small door


Summit area of Eastfield

Glenfarg Head and Arlick Hill



We do love a sign or two in this country


Path - not the sort of path we are used to


The start of the "path", are a shower or two that would be fun


Glenfarg Reservoir, we have to get to the other side


This is one of the "under" fences, George just completed his commando roll


We have just left the summit area of Glenfarg Head which is in the middle of the trees


Nice house, bit isolated


Looking back down towards the reservoir, wind farm in the distance


The way ahead, Arlick Hill is on the right


George elegantly climbing over the electric fence


Trying to avoid touching the top cable


George is actually airborne. When I climbed over the fence I hadn't realised the top cable was electrified as I had been concentrating on getting action shots. When I climbed over I can confirm the power wasn't switched on - much to George's amusement


Looking southish from Arlick Hill, another ruin


Summit area of Arlick Hill


Arlick Hill summit


The ruin close up


The windows had been bricked up at some time


For the lamb lovers



This was a cracking day, it made a change having a longer couple of walks rather than jumping in and out of the cars for a single hill. Navigation was a proper challenge as with most of the Tumps the hills aren't exactly obvious, even when the visibility is excellent. We have another couple more weeks on the Tump trail before we head north. We have already been discussing where to head when we are released. It will seem very odd spending hours driving before we start walking and the thought of over 1000m of ascent is a bit daunting. One thing we won't miss is fences, gates, farms and gorse.