Dumyat Evening Walk

[Scots_Charles_River]

Buzzards, badgers and hillrunners out on Dumyat (hill behind stirling) dry underfoot. Spotted the farmer with his cool NZ sendaway dog. Could not get my firesteel to light the cheapy Gelert fire blocks/hexamine tablets. Plenty of buzzards to see especially in Pendreich woods.

Great little hill to snatch a walk afer work a this time of year and see a sunset.

Nick

Trig point

Brogan

The Hillfoots, Grangemouth and Falkirk

Collecting Ticks

 

[fred gordon]

Some years ago a friend of mine who lives in Stirling had a childrens book published. It was called Light on Dumyt. He worked for the Scotsman newspaper at the time and they thought it would be great fun to have the book Press launch on Dumyt. During the picture taking and interviews he slipped and banged his head. Next day his sympethetic journalist colleagues presented him with a 'doctored' copy of his book. The title now read 'Out like a light on Dumyt'!

 

[Seagull]

Nice pics, SCR..

But where's the obligatory empty tin/bottle, atop the trig point?

Cor! ,swilling down the dog , post mudbath; fun and games, eh .

Ceeg

 

[JonnyP]

Some years ago a friend of mine who lives in Stirling had a childrens book published. It was called Light on Dumyt. He worked for the Scotsman newspaper at the time and they thought it would be great fun to have the book Press launch on Dumyt. During the picture taking and interviews he slipped and banged his head. Next day his sympethetic journalist colleagues presented him with a 'doctored' copy of his book. The title now read 'Out like a light on Dumyt'!

Lol......
Cheers for the shots SCR, nice lab there....

 

[Gailainne]

I've lived in the area for 45 years and still have'nt made it up Dumyat, one of these days.

The sherriff moor inn does a good pint, and some superb meals, well worth the trek.

If thats the lake I think it is, I had my 25th birthday party there...eh a few years back well it started there, finished in "Alans bar" in Stirling, no longer exists.

Thats an excellent shot of the Valley, and the river, far enough away to miss out all the traffic jams, and road works, but keeps the ambience, and the light, nice one.

On the drive home tonight, the skys were clear, and although Stirling and the hillfoots roads were in shadow, the Ochills were still in full sunlight, with that crisp blue sky behind them, lovely stuff.

Regards

Stephen

 

[Scots_Charles_River]

Cheers chaps. Spelling is weird as the locals call it -dum-eye-at.

The labs the parents, just dropped him off after a month of hols with me.

Some times from my school the Ochills look like Ayres Rock, the light turning them redish in Autumn and Winter.

Nick

 

[scottishwolf]

How do you get to there mate? I spend most of my time in Grangemouth at the moment and have been looking for somewhere like that to walk the dog.

 

[JFW]

Trig point

QUOTE]


I can see my house from here

Great walk with several bushcraft sites about.

Good photies.

Cheers

JFW

 

[Scots_Charles_River]

How do you get to there mate? I spend most of my time in Grangemouth at the moment and have been looking for somewhere like that to walk the dog.

Ok, hit the EM 9, come off at Bridge of Allan,go thru B of Allan, continue after and follow signs for Stirling Uni then look for 'SherrifMuir' signs, pass Beaconhurst School, on your left then after a mile or so you see a carpark on the right, sloping and a gate.

Next time I'm goin up after work I'll post.

Nick

 

[Chainsaw]

I can see my house from here too (well not really but it's sort of thata way!!) can't beat a good walk to clear the cobwebs!

Cheers,

Alan

PS Was it you I saw in a pug estate with a canoe on top filling up in the linlithgow jet station a month or two back?

 

[BushTucker]

wow, the last photo is superb, wish we had views like that down here!!

 

[Scots_Charles_River]

PS Was it you I saw in a pug estate with a canoe on top filling up in the linlithgow jet station a month or two back?

Yes !

I stay near junction 4 M9. Was probably paddling at the union canal (Woodcockdale).

Nick

 

[Scots_Charles_River]

wow, the last photo is superb, wish we had views like that down here!!

It's a poor photo to be honest, 30 kwid camera, cloudy. Although we had 100m view all day yesterday up Ben Starav, Loch etive. 7hrs and 12mins walking and 6hrs raining !

Nick

 

[Scots_Charles_River]

Some more photos, for interested folk.

Me on the trig.

Brogan watching a deer.

Badger Sett

Path, badger setts just out of shot top right at the topof the scree.

 

[Scots_Charles_River]

Just a thought, anyone want a walk up here once the nites are dark ? Maybe some doggers at the carpark though. (google for dogging - just don't do a search at work ! )

Nick

 

[Gailainne]

Damn now thats a scarey thought, worse than a witches coven by a long way, shudder

Stephen

 

[scottishwolf]

Just a thought, anyone want a walk up here once the nites are dark ? Maybe some doggers at the carpark though. (google for dogging - just don't do a search at work ! )

Nick

Sounds good to me. The walk I mean........not the dogging lol

 

[Chainsaw]

Yes !

I stay near junction 4 M9. Was probably paddling at the union canal (Woodcockdale).

Nick

Cool, next time I see you I'll give you a honk and a wave, I work in linlithgow (Sun) so if you see a waving maniac that looks like Pepe Le Pew in one of these, just ignore him

Cheers,

Alan