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Birnam Oak, Dunkeld (Route 35)

High striding hill ridges; quiet valleys floored with grass rather than harsh heather; big trees and even bigger rivers: these are the pleasures of Perthshire.

‘REAL PERTHSHIRE’

Beinn Dorain over Auch (Routes 28, 29)

Perthshire was abolished in 1975. The name is now applied to the Perth & Kinross Council area: its tourist board is called VisitPerthshire and the council’s website is www.perthshire.org. When Perthshire did exist, it did not include Kinross in the south, and extended west to include Ben Lui and Ben More at Crianlarich.

I’ve used ‘real Perthshire’ as an excuse to include the whole of the Ben Dorain group in the west, even though its main approaches are from Bridge of Orchy in former Argyll. Ben Alder is also included; the county boundary runs past Benalder Cottage, and it’s a fine hill with two genuine scrambling ridges and approaches from Perthshire’s Loch Rannoch.

Perthshire, however defined, is a big place; it contains one in seven of Scotland’s Munros. The Lowland part of the county is represented in this book by a single route in Perth itself. Lowland Perthshire, with some fine walking in the Ochils, is covered in Walking in the Ochils, Campsie Fells and Lomond Hills by Patrick Baker, also published by Cicerone Press. That part of the far southwest included in the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, and by my own Cicerone guide to it, has been left out too.