Yes we did, especially as this was my first 'hill day' for 3 weeks after a trial lay off.
The original plan was to head west and pick off a couple of Marilyns near Ben Lomond but after reading reports the thought of heather and boggy ground was not very appealing. So plan B it was, George was unavailable so it was just me & Parminder. I suggested we tackle Turin first as it was a tiny hill in the grand scheme of things.




Parking from the north is a major problem, I managed to squeeze the car in at the junction, neither road is busy so it wasn't a problem


The way ahead, good track to start


More good track ahead


The end of the track, we now have 5 different gates to negotiate - making sure we left them exactly as we found them


We would be turning left and heading uphill soon


Off piste now, we headed for another gate, the double barbed wire fence was not appealing


Looking back, we kept as close to the fence as we could, trying not to scare the nearby sheep


Interesting double locking gate, there were 2 of them


The way ahead uphill, not far now


Looking east from just below the summit


The large cairn on the summit of Turin Hill


Parminder posing as usual


Cairn explanation


Parminder in his element, 2 trigs in one day


Rescobie Loch south of the summit

After a short drive (about 15 miles) through Forfar (first visit) and we headed off to the car park for Craigowl Hill. I won't do a route as we followed the WH


Large car park mainly for the dog walking brigade for Craigowl Hill


The way ahead


The blurb at the car park


The green way ahead


Path ascending now


Single file now unless you want to mingle with the gorse


Looking south towards the Tay


Quite a few folk dotted about

We had a brief chat whilst ascending as to whether we should tackle Auchterhouse Hill first as a wee bonus and we agreed we would. We definitely made the correct decision as that was the best hill of the day, smallish summit with superb views.


A bit higher now, Tay very evident


Looking east to what would be our way to Craigowl


Looking across to Craigowl Hill, a few undulations on the cards


Auchterhouse Hill surrounded by some lovely trees


Plenty of heather around


Looking SE


Great path all the way up - this was one of the few days we didn't have our gaiters on


Kirkton of Auchterhouse - some rather nice houses


Camera photo of the houses - zoomed


Another zoomed shot


The Tay


Craigowl Hill, not that far


We are heading down to the wee wooden gate then uphill again


Looking SE towards Tentsmuir Forest and onto St Andrews


Another descent before the final ascent


A very lonely tree


Looking back


Auchterhouse Hill and it protective trees


Masts and all the technical paraphernalia


Got to have a few turbines in a photo


Bonny Dundee


For anyone who is a lover of technology and masts


SE again and the wide Tay Estuary


Parminder preparing the trig for his obligatory photo


Some major huts surrounded by a large fence


Rather than head back along the path we opted to go off piste and cut the corner, heading for the forest


Just when we were thinking we had made a bit of a fopar, a path appeared


And then a gate that would take us onto the main path back to the car park


Freshly mown path

I really enjoyed both hills, Turin I was a bit apprehensive as I am always uncomfortable about walking across farmers land. Having said that when you look at other possible approaches to the summit, it is impossible to avoid crossing farming land.
Craigowl Hill as I said earlier is mainly used by dog walkers and has plenty of paths in the forest going in all different directions.