Ride 07/02/2015 Castle Campbell to Glendevon 

A most excellent day of cycling, the sun was shining and the wind wasn’t blowing. So after last week’s failed attempt to get up the Ochil hills, due to high winds, today was a good day to go mountain biking. I had heard of a route that goes over the Ochils via Castle Campbell to Glendevon, so I thought I would take a crack at that since I’ve never done it before. I’ve ridden up to Castle Campbell before via the road so I decided to take the foot path up and immediately regretted it. Unbeknownst to me the path is very narrow, very steep and full of stairs, with some crazy cully path up a burn that had a very large drop to it. There was also some land side damage to the path with trees blocking the way, so suffice to say I ended up carrying the bike most of the way up  By the time I got to the top there was a warning of not using the path as it was damaged due to landslide, why didn’t some fucker put that at the bottom as well! I would have taken the road instead. Anyway I made it to Castle Campbell in one piece and carried on up to the path that leads to Glendevon. It’s a very good marked out path; you could probably take a 4×4 up it, if it weren’t for all the gates. It’s mostly downhill at a slight gradient which means I can ride it without having to push the bike up steep hills. My only concern was all the ice around, the snow was fine but the ice was treacherous, with me coming off my bike at one point. But it’s a good ride, now on single foot path, past Hillfoot hill and Glenquey reservoir onto someone’s house, can’t believe people would want to live up here on a big hill in the middle of nowhere. Anyway the path leads to their road which I was able to ride all the way down to Glendevon. Stopped here for some food and then traced my footstep back up the hill to Castle Campbell and on down heading home. All in all a great days riding with some good photos