| Stirling Bike – Ochils
Traverse 25th July
2004
Mickle Corum,
Blairdenon, Ben Buck, Andrew Gannel, and King's Seat
Featuring: Beagleboy, Eddie and Me
Starting from Stirling, we climbed on the Sherrifmuir road to Harperstone.
We then started the long slog up Mickle Corum.
Beagleboy climbs
A mixture of riding, pushing and carrying took us onto Blairdenon before we descended towards the top of Silver Glen. The section north of Craighorn was very boggy.
Bogtrotting (Ben Cleuch can be seen in the distance)
It took us 4 hours to reach the top of Silver Glen, from where it was the traditional push onto Ben Buck and an easy ride to Ben Cleuch
Eddie and Beagie push onto Ben Buck
A delightful skoosh off the summit of Ben Cleuch (the highest point in the Ochils at 721m) took us towards Andrew Gannel, but not without mishap…
Beagleboy gets caught in the tar-pit.
Out of water, and with discretion being the better part
of valour, and all that mince we decided that rather than
attempt a full
traverse we
would head from the top of the Andrew Gannel track onto King's
Seat and descend into Dollar.
Eddie climbs back onto King's Seat from the east
Lookingtowards the descent off King's Seat
Proofthat it wasn't all carrying!
Beagleboy descends
A grand day out!
Trip Information
Total distance - 35 km to Dollar or 55km returning to Stirling in 9 hours.
Height ascended 1468m
Route Details
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W HPRSTN
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Harperstone
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NN 84431 04601
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W MKCRM
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Mickle Corum summit
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NN 85736 02541
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W BLRDNN
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Blairdenon summit
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NN 86576 01881
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W SLVRGL
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Silver Glen - top
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NN 88876 01016
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W BNBUCK
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Ben Buck - summit
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NN 89631 01426
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W BNCLEU
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Ben Cleuch summit
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NN 90276 00666
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W ANDGNL
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Andrew Gannel summit
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NN 91926 00531
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W WP08
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Andrew Gannel track
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NN 92826 00361
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W KNGSST
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King's Seat summit
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NS 93651 99766
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W CSTLED
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Castle Campbell, Dollar
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NS 96121 99371
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Tracklog - (see disclaimer)*
In
addition a GPS
Utility (GPSU) file may be downloaded containing the following
route information:
a)
route for our Ochils traverse.
b)
tracklog for the entire circuit returning to Stirling
Associated
file: OchilsTraverse0704.txt
To
transfer OchilsTraverse0704.txt to a GPS unit
1)
Open the file in Notepad/Wordpad and save as a text file
(will look like a reasonably sensible file)
2)
Open the file in GPSU and transfer to GPS unit
*Disclaimer
The
above information is provided for planning purposes only and
I accept no responsibility with regard to its accuracy.
Always
carry a map and a compass, and prepare for the unexpected.
Please leave these hills in a state where we can continue
to enjoy them.
©
Crispin Bennett 2004
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