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Last updated:
09/01/13
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I ascended two very short close-to-home HuMPs today. Lovely blue-sky weather but fairly windy. Hill: Core Hill Date: Friday 24th February 2012 Company: Myself and Beinn Time: Less than 5 Minutes! The first hill I “ascended” today was Core Hill - it took under two minutes to walk to the summit! There is a road right to the top of this HuMP - I would guess the walk is about 150m distance and 10m height  .
The transmitters are located at the summit – the first photo shows how close you can park. Car parking just below the summit:  Not much route description needed – get out of the car, walk along the final stretch of road leading to the summit, walk round the building, go through a small gate into a field and you will find the trig point  .
Final stretch of road to the building and highest transmitter, at the summit:  View from summit trig point:  View from summit of Core Hill:  View from summit of Core Hill:  Bennachie from summit of Core Hill (zoomed):  Core Hill wasn’t even a leg-stretch, so I then drove round to also ascent Hill of Rothmaise. Hill: Hill of Rothmaise Date: Friday 24th February 2012 Company: Myself and Beinn Time: 40 Minutes I parked in a small car park, where there is room for four cars. I then followed the sign indicating Hilltop Viewpoint 1200m. I pretty-much followed the widest track up the hill. Click here to see a map of the route undertaken Signs and track leading away from small car park:  Hill of Rothmaise:  On reaching the marker post, shown in the next picture, I followed this path up the hill. Marker post indicating route up the hill:  Ascending Hill of Rothmaise:  View from just below the summit:  It took only 22 minutes to reach the summit. Looking towards Bennachie from the summit of Hill of Rothmaise:  Hill of Rothmaise was a pleasant wee walk. I still remain to be convinced about doing the HuMPs. They are proving to be useful wee dog-walks but thus far they are not the most exciting hills. Getting home was a bit worrying as my car was indicating that there was a range of only 5 miles fuel left but it was 13 miles to the nearest garage. After travelling five miles, the engine management system put the car into some kind of damage prevention mode – allowing me to continue on using a small fuel reserve but restricting the speed to around 15-20mph. I had to get the manual out after refilling with fuel to work out how to get the car back out of this damage prevention mode. Seems ok now – I hope! |