Hill of Fare

A brief report and a few quick photos from our walk on a beautiful winter's Friday afternoon. We couldn't get parked at the usual layby on the main Raemoir road as there were new NO PARKING signs there, leading to a couple of cars parking on the verge opposite, but we drove on a bit and parked at the end of the trail that leads down from Hill of Brathens and crossed the road to walk up the track that passes the ruin of Clounie Crighton Castle. The first team photo came as we crossed a field in front of unoccupied farm dwellings:

Through a gate, the trail took us a bit more eastward than we expected and we came across this tall 2-seater "director's" style chair - no idea why it was there, looking up the hill at an open field:

Soon we met up with the main trail that leads up from the aforementioned layby and that we had initially intended to walk on. Finally, we knew exactly where we were and we headed up the hill towards the cairn summit. The sun was going down rapidly and I was trying to calculate how much daylight we had left. Before we got to the top, I thought we should consider heading back down from this point:

I was, however, eventually persuaded to carry on to the cairn:

From there we retraced our steps, heading back to the car. On the way, we passed feeding time at the farm:

Here's our route: