Ben Cleuch – Walking the Ochil Hills
The Ochil Hills thrust a forbiddingly steep escarpment above the flat carselands of Clackmannanshire, abruptly liberating the hills from a Lowland landscape; their southern flanks incised by a succession of deep folds shutting out the world. Beyond this, as the gradient eases, the terrain softens into grassy, rolling hills that gradually decrease in elevation to the north and east, where they extend for a considerable distance to the North Sea coast. The summit of the range is Ben Cleuch at…