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Continue on a wide path past the viewpointer, northeast as before, descending to a crossing path. Keep ahead, to pass through a stile into replanted brushwood. A path leads across it to a similar stile. A rough path continues uphill, into a gloomy plantation, where some conglomerate bedrock is exposed. The path passes a sprawly little cairn at the true summit of Knock Hill, then descends. Bear left on an earth track to the edge of trees, where you meet a wide, smooth timber track.

Turn right on this, between felled areas. The track descends to a sharp bend down right. Here turn left into a wide fenced path, to a deer fence at the edge of the brushwood. Pass through a high kissing-gate, and turn right to the top of Kate McNieven’s Craig. The crag is conglomerate (puddingstone) of the Old Red Sandstone, which makes the Knock a hill of the northernmost edge of the Scottish Lowlands. Look out for buzzards here.

Return to the kissing-gate but don’t go through it. Turn right along the outside of the deer fence, heading back west, with views across Shaggie Burn to Monzie Castle and the Highlands. The path descends alongside the forest edge. After 800 metres, the path passes through a kissing-gate into the woodland. In a few metres, fork right on the lower path close to the woodland foot, soon with Crieff Hydro’s golf course below.