One of three Geocaches i have placed round the Forest of Binn.
It might be called ‘the Bin’ but it’s got nothing to do with rubbish! This site takes its unusual sounding name from the Gaelic for hill or mountain – bheinn (pronounced ‘ben’).
Bin forest was first planted in the 1840s with fir tree seeds brought back from North America by the famous Scottish plant-hunter David Douglas. Originally planted to supply timber, this forest now offers much more than just wood.
It is worth a walk to the top of the hill, and on the way there you encounter a huge rock, which has sat there there for hundreds of thousands of years I guess. Throughout the years erosion and probably ice caused it to crack at some point - when, who knows!!