Angus Glens Walking Festival

Brenda Clough • March 2, 2019

We are starting to gear up for summer now and looking forward to warm sunny weather and long days on the hills.

Enjoying a custom designed guided walking adventure with Perthshire Treks is one way you can of course enjoy our beautiful landscape but there are also other options. One of these is to take part in one of the many walking festivals in Scotland over the spring, summer and autumn months.

The first walking festival we are involved with this year is the Angus Glens Walking Festival which takes place from Thursday 30 May to Sunday 2 June. At present, we're both out leading walks at the festival over the weekend including Jock’s Road (Glen Doll to Braemar), Loch Brandy and Loch Wharral, a challenging hill walk over Mount Keen and the Falls of Damff circuit.

However, if you want to go on one of the more popular walks at any walking festival you need to book early, indeed the Saturday walks at the Angus Glens Festival are already fully booked but there are spaces on Thursday, Friday and Sunday. The walks are great value at between £20 and £32 per person including transport to the start and from the end of the walk from Kirriemuir and group sizes of up to 14 are relatively small.

Both the Mount Keen and the Falls of Damff walks start in beautiful Glen Esk. The Mount Keen walk takes a good track past the lovely Queen’s Well before heading boldly up the southern spur of Mount Keen and then continues eastwards over heathery hills with some great names like Naked Hill and Hill of Saughs before heading back down to the valley.

The Falls of Damff walk heads westwards past a sixteenth century castle once used as a watchtower for the raiders and cattle thieves (caterans) from the north and the remains of a very old church. It then heads along Loch Lee where, last time, we spotted adders at the side of the track before heading first past the Falls of Unich and then the Falls of Damff. Both are quite spectacular and the climb up the narrow valley is very atmospheric. The descent back to the valley down the Shank of Inchgrundle provides fantastic views to the east on a good day.

If you miss the walks at the festival we can arrange to take you on either of these walks or Loch Brandy and Loch Wharral on a day of your choice or on a similar adventure closer to Pitlochry.

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