Little Glenshee ramble - Creag na Criche Traditional Cache
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Little Glenshee ramble - Creag na Criche
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A cache located on walk starting from the parking spot at the top of the glen after a nice drive on a circular route round Little Glenshee. Perthshire is rich in history and folklore, and it is difficult to go anywhere without coming across sites of interest. Perthshire has dozens of standing stones and stone circles dotted all over its vast area, as well as countless cairns, barrows, forts, homesteads and rock art.
The caches are placed on a fascinating circular walk on medium elevation estate land in a relatively unexplored area between Little Glenshee and Glen Garr. It is on a good landrover track all the way. An excellent all year round ramble.
It takes in a number of historical sites of interest including stone circles, Craig Gibbon Obelisk, standing stones and March Dykes. Wildlife is plentiful in the area and includes osprey hides.
The walk as envisaged is a circular walk starting from the carpark at Little Glenshee, over the new wooden bridge and then up by the old slate quarry on to open moor via Moine Folaich. A detour can be taken to see Craig Gibbon obelisk, returning via Loch Tullybelton.
The route is such that the caches can be done in a number of ways and different routes. See the map here for the route outlined. Total distance for the route outlined is 8 miles/15km and 200m ascent.
Appropriate hillwalking gear is essential if you are tackling the whole route.
The route is also listed as a mountainbike route taking approx 2 hours - see the related webpage.
From the cache at the old quarry - Slated continue until the path splits. The lower track takes you to Loch Tullybelton and the upper one climbs steadily uphill to a high point under the impressive Creag na Criche.
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