Well that would be there being so much snow on the road that I couldn't get up to Hillside of Prieston
I had 3 attempts but just couldn't make it and there's nowhere to park unless you get to the top :-( Still I did rather better than the Citroen I had to wait for stuck lower down the hill...
So plan B, go to the new car park at Balkello, much lower giving a longer walk but still enough time?
There was clearly a lot more snow on the way up than I had expected:
Eventually I hove in site of the summit, rather later than I'd hoped as when I'd left Hillside of Prieston it had started to snow again and there had been rather a lack of views
By the time I got within striking distance of the summit I was much later than I had expected, somehow someone had stolen a couple of hours and it was past 3pm.
I could have picked a better route up, if I'd been able to see anything, but the obvious routes from the car park had put me on the hill way too far west, I know for future where to go, but decided a good walk had been had and there was no point taking unnecessary risks. It also looked like there was some more weather inbound:
But the view across to the proper hills was still nice:
Still, the walk down (following the route I _should_ have followed on the way up) was pretty stunning with nice views over snowy Dundee
And I was right, it did snow again on the way down, this is the road to Auchterhouse!
Well, no Radio (even if I did carry it all) but always nice to get on a hill!
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