Craibstone-Elrick and Brimmond Hills

Great turnout for the first walk of 2019 - 8 of us showed up at Brimmond Hill car park at 1 pm for what was scheduled to be a 9 kms hike. The area is well known to Gordon and Stewart, who regularly take the dogs up Brimmond Hill, but they were not familiar with the first half of this particular walk (https://my.viewranger.com/route/details/MjA2Mzk5Nw==?ref=57.181850989705694|-2.233402000000069|18).

The instructions seemed clear enough - there were 30 separate waypoints taking up 17 pages of printing on A4 paper, but, after a while, all the key directions in the photos began to look the same. Stewart and Gordon knew roughly where to head and Craibstone golf course was always in view so we were never going to get lost, but finding the exact turning points proved too tricky for me.

It transpired in the end that we omitted the loop that should have taken us to the Tyrebagger car park (about waypoint 17) and instead Gordon led us straight back up Elrick Hill, where we stopped at the top for our first team photo:

Andy then suggested a more artistic shot:

We trundled down the hill and crossed the road and up Brimmond Hill for some fine views inland and over the city and out to sea:

The route should have looked like this:

but ended up this shape: