27/09/07 Peter
Up here via point 69 used to be a nice round but all a bit overgrown now. if anybody finds a pair of cheap and cheerfull black gloves at the top they are mine.
18/05/07 Dave H
Kathy never added her photo, so I had to run up Scar Hill myself. Well, I could have taken a picture from the garden but I had half an hour to spare. K is quite right that the route up from here is getting more and more overgrown, but it is still possible with a bit of luck to get a bracken, gorse and broom free route. Definitely best to do it early in the year though. I took the path across the road from our track, past the cottage in the photo, to the corner of the field right in the middle of the photo where there is a gate, then following a path that ends up at the col directly above the cottage. Here there is a very good illustration of the effect of grazing on vegetation (see photo). A few years ago it was easier to run up the left hand side of the fence. Now the right is much easier. Kathy's direct route down is definitely not to be recommended, but there is a very nice circular route from here via Craig
Dhu and point 69. No time for that today though.1 May 2007. Kathy.
Had a lovely evening run up my favourite little hill from home. I've walked up this hill most years since I moved here 12 years ago and it's changed quite a bit (harder to crash through the gorse, whins and bracken as nobody uses the route). Crossed the Tarland road and up the path and across the rise west to the back of Tillyhermack (where I used to live) then up and through/round the birch woods to the top, from where there is a great view of the Howe of Cromar and Loch Davan. Took a bad route down and got scratched to bits (that's why it's called Scar Hill) but met up with the south/north track to Wester Coull and back through the woods to Strathweltie. Took about 50 minutes. Got told off by Dave for not taking a photo but I'll take one from the house and add it soon (that's the trouble with living with the deviser of this challenge...).
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