Blue skies for the Glen Sherup circuit

Hills: Tarmangie Hill & Innerdownie
Category: Donald x 2
Height: N/a
A cracking walk on a perfect blue sky day with views to fully appreciate this great landscape. It does not get much better than this for a walk in late March.

Just a few of the geese

A good start was a red squirrel in the trees beside the car park and a huge skein of geese flew over heading north, too warm for them, spring is here.

Nice wee brig along the burn

Rather than follow the woodland start as suggested in most descriptions we walked along the burn before taking a gradual walk up the dry grassy track to meet the original track at the junction with the forest. A good decision as we were in the sun much quicker. So warm that gear was discarded before the climb.

Fife hills and Loch Leven in distance

Already good views, looking back I can see West & East Lomond peeking through the gap.
Superb rolling hills with great views if you ignore the turbines. 

Innerdownie peaking out

Another straightforward uphill ascent and our first summit is reached, Innerdownie. A cooler breeze here so down a slope for elevenses.

North from Innerdownie

The views are outstanding with stacks of white flecked tops as we look north. Some debate re which hills but the Lawers range definitely, Drumochter Hills probably Cairngorms just and many more to argue over. What a cracking viewpoint with conditions allowing you to relax and take it in.

Track to Tarmangie

No navigation problems today as we head straight for Whitewhisp Hill before a 90 degree turn to Tarmangie where the top according to the GPS is the small cairn nearer the fence!! The larger cairn does have the slightly better views.
As expected, on a super day like this, we are not alone, stick figures can be seen on most of the distant and close Ochil tops.
Now the high level return/descent above Glen Sherup.

Ben Shee & Glensherup reservoir

A debate, go up Ben Shee or not, of course we had to. A short steep 100m ascent. Glad we did.
Reservoirs everywhere in this area, from up here we see Lower & Upper Glendevon on our right, I remember a not so fruitful day catching nothing down there. Glensherup down below on our left. A few boats out fishing and a rise in progress as ripples appear all across the water. A good day for fishing for the trout.

Dam

The final descent route twists back round to the dam of Glensherup reservoir before a forest track walk back to the car park.
A super day out in good company with fantastic views, everything a good walk should be. 

Wildlife: Red squirrel, buzzard, magpie, skylark
Time: 5.32
Ascent: 703m
Distance: 16.4km