Here are our previous walks

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Member spotlight - Stuart Nichol

BDHC WHY?? When I came to Scotland, from Birmingham, to University in 1969 I became friends with Ian from Aberdeen who was already into hills, so in November the following...
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Glenshee/Carn an Tuirc - 23rd June 2024

On a glorious summer day, 17 members of Blairgowrie and District Hillwalking Club ventured to Glen Shee. Everyone enjoyed outstanding walks with wonderful visibility into the Southern Cairngorms, Highland Perthshire...
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Sunday 2nd June 2024 – Jock’s Road (Glen Clova to Auchallater)

It had been many years since the club had last walked this famous drover’s road over the Mounth. At 22 Kms and with considerable height gain and steep descents, it...

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Spring Weekend 2024, 10-17th May

The club originally planned to travel to Harris again after a ten-year absence but a lack of suitable accommodation meant that Harris’s loss became the Lake District’s gain.


No less...

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Arran

Twenty-four club members made their way over to Arran, most on Friday 3 June with a few stragglers on the following day.

The majority elected to climb Goatfell by a...

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Autumn in Glen Doll

Once again Club members received a briefing and a risk assessment about Covid 19 in advance of their walk in Glen Doll. As the car park is popular, walkers arrived...

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Autumn weekend meet at Onich

Blairgowrie and District Hillwalking Club’s autumn weekend was based at Onich near Fort William. The highlight of the weekend was a day on Carn Mor Dearg (1223m) as club members...

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Autumn Weekend - Newton Stewart 16 - 18 September 2022

It had been some years since the club had chosen the SW of Scotland as a weekend venue, the trip was well overdue. The area is comparatively quiet and offers...

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Back to Bonny Glenshee

In similar fashion to the previous walk, once again all members had received a Risk Assessment prior to attending the walk and the same guidelines were issued. The group arrived...

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Backwater Reservoir area

As this was local walk the club had opted for transport by car. Two groups, one from Blairgowrie and the other from Alyth, set off to rendezvous at the northernmost...

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Balquhidder

As hillwalkers we have to be prepared to adapt our plans to suit all conditions and this was certainly the case for the trip to the Balquhidder area. Low cloud...

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Beinn a' Ghlo

On Sunday 29th March the Club had a great day out to Beinn a' Ghlo. Again a good turn out of members to the planned walk to Beinn a' Ghlo...

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Beinn Bhreac/Glen Derry

What a day! Wall to wall sunshine most of the time and superb views in every direction. The club enjoyed another good turn-out including some welcome guests. Plastered in sun...

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Ben Challum

On a scorching day in late August, Blairgowrie and DistrictHillwalking Club travelled to Tyndrum and fielded three walking partiestackling the munro Ben Challum, a Corbett Beinn Chaorach and a stretch...