Forest of Birse

Five of us drove up the seemingly never-ending single track road beyond Finzean for a short walk on yet another beautiful crisp, clear Friday afternoon. We only had a couple of hours of daylight to play with so the walk was always going to be on the short side, but it became even shorter when we discovered a bunch (don't think that's the correct collective noun) of shooters a bit too close to the originally planned route. Our meeting point was the Auld Kirk:

The door is unlocked so I peeped in to check on which hymns we would be singing:

Quick team photo at the start:

The stats and route for our gentle hike were: