Couple of weeks ago G suggested getting away a weekend up north and we headed up on a Friday to stay at a Wigwam/Pod at a campsite near Durrisdeer in Angus.
Saturday we met up with Al at Glen Doll car park to climb up the Glen onto Mayar where we were rewarded clear 360 views of the surrounding hills. Up here makes you feel real small and realise how lucky we are living in Scotland with places like this just a couple of hours drive away...
We then descended to cross the plateau to ascend to Driesh. It was icy underfoot and the temperature was well below freezing up on the top of the second Munro of today and sheltered in the rocks at the Trig Point we quickly has some cheese rolls and tea from the flasks before descending down to take the Kilbo path back down to Glen Doll. The path was a bit sketchy at the start as we had to shuffle across a frozen snow drift which if you slipped off would have resulted in a major incident for sure but we took our time and picking our way down the frozen path we were soon down to the tree level and out the biting cold wind and warmed up as we returned to the cars. Finishing our flasks Al headed for home and we were back to our pod to cook some dinner and watch a film - it had a tv
Sunday morning we rose later and were away for 10am having enjoyed a great place to stay with a warm comfy pod and clean hot showers - will return there again!.
We headed down to visit one of Gs friends before heading to Montrose and its Air heritage Centre which is on the former airfield that was the first military airfield in the UK and open from 1913 to 1953. During WW2 it was a Fighter station and joined RAF Drem here in East Lothian in the defence of Edinburgh and the Royal Navy base at Rosyth. The Centre uses several hangers of the former base and is full of a lot of great stuff to see and run by volunteers we were both impressed by our first visit here. We need to return again as we only had 2 hours to look round but there is a lot of stuff to read through and look at.
From a Tornado that arrived last year to a Willys Jeep painted to replicate the Montrose Mountain rescue which Jeeps were used for after WW2 amongst many other roles...
A fun weekend and good to see the hills in winter...
Wee film of both days...
More soon...
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