Geograph - photograph every grid square

The Forestry Commission has created a network of mountain bike trails in Slorach's Wood. Normally one wouldn't go near them because it would be plain daft to go down a narrow path intended for bikes at speed, but the trails are... (more)

Jean Carr's Stone This is a large isolated boulder of conglomerate. It is named after Jean Carr, whose sad life is described on an information board nearby. She was kept a prisoner by her father until his death. Later she had a son who... (more)

The scar left by a landslide shows the depth of the glacial till which mantles the underlying bedrock here.

There is an information board nearby telling the story of Jean and this group of boulders in Ordiequish Forest. On my older copy of the 1:25K map it is marked as "Jane Kerr (stone)" but has now been corrected. This shows how place... (more)

Scotch Hill is covered by a thick layer of red glacial deposits left as the glaciers melted at the end of the last Ice Age. Quite small burns have carved deep steep-sided gullies all round the hill in the unconsolidated till. This is... (more)

We thought this tree looked quite elegant with its inward-curving branches, as if it were going to hug something - the converse of a tree-hugger.

The Forestry Commission has created a network of mountain bike trails in Slorach's Wood. Normally one wouldn't go near them because it would be plain daft to go down a narrow path intended for bikes at speed, but the trails are... (more)

It was almost a given that venturing off the paths would be a bad idea. Not so bad if the ice is thick enough to take your weight, or if the water has drained away after the ice formed. It wasn't, and it hadn't.