Culter to city walk
Month 3 brought walk 3 of 2018. Five of us made it in the end - Ian had to cancel at the last minute - to follow Dave's planned route which started on the Deeside Way, but had a couple of diversions taking us down beside the river. We alighted the bus in Culter and headed down Pittengullies Brae to join the Way briefly, before diverting towards the Camphill School entrance, where we turned down "Lover's Walk" which took us down to the riverside. Soon we arrived at the APR where we had to walk back up to rejoin the Way again. There were some fine views of the new road sweeping over the river from Maryculter: Time for a team photo then: There were a couple of pools constructed - what were they for? Too small for reservoirs - could they be for trout fishing - or water treatment?: The next diversion down to the river eventually took us on a very narrow trail that was, even this early in the season, overgrown with brambles etc whose thorns picked away at o...