Correen Hills circuit
Ian and Steve had to pull out of yesterday's walk but we still had 8 of us heading over to Donside to tackle the Correen Hills circuit, which takes in Clova, Badingair, Brux and Edinbanchory hills, finishing with Lord Arthur's hill. We cut a little bit off the full ViewRanger route by parking cars at the Dubston Farm entrance instead of back on the main road at Tullynessle, thus saving a total of about 3kms of tarmac walking. The walk was easily followed on good, clear tracks, mostly landrover routes, some grassy, some a little stony. We followed instructions and completed an anti-clockwise circuit, which initially meant a slightly hazardous crossing of a fairly full burn that eventually feeds back down to the Don. Here's a couple of shots of us starting the climb up from that burn crossing: As we climbed, the views became more expansive: Eventually, we reached the apparently disused quarry where a hut remained, apparently still in good working order - but ...