On March 18, 2002, I climbed Dumyat, a really nice little peak which is visible from the campus of the University. Dumyat is a popular place for locals to climb whenthey want a short hill walk.
This is really obvious in this picture. The path is very indented from all the people walking up it.

This is the site, I think, of an ancient Iron Age fort known as Dumyat fort (creative, huh). This fort is an oddity since its location, while providing a great view, was much more difficult to get to than other forts of the time, and it has little to no growing or grazing land around it. One of these days I'm gonna go up there with a copy of the archaeological survey of it and look around.

It's about 1.5 miles from the parking are to the top of the hill. I know this because my trusty GPS unit tells me so.
After what I thought was a really long walk, I was faced with this:

I figured, hey, I've been walking a while, this must be the way up to the top. Its steeper than it looks. The two little tiny dots near the top are two people up ahead of me.
Nope, it was just another slope, not the top. That was still about half a mile and several hundred feet in altitude to go. But the view was great.

All in all, this was a great climb. I am way out of shape, so I had to rest a couple of times on the way up, but it was worth it. Here's a selection of images from the view, starting with a stitched together image of the view from the back of the peak. These are the Ochill hills, which form a large part of the landscape I see everyday.

This is Castlelaw, with the Wallace monument in the background. I have tons of pictures of this promontory from the opposite view. It's beautifully framed in the view from the bridge on campus.

I sat for a while on the top, just looking out over the landscape. And instead of popping up a pretty landscape shot, I give you a picture of my knee, and the long, long drop below me. Those little white dots are sheep, the fuzzy maggots of the Scottish landscape. This was when I realized that my feral nature is very present in these environments. I was spotting bunnies in that field, just catching the movement and homing in on it until I could idenitfy the source.

This is the top of Dumyat. The big iron basket thing apparently used to be used for fires. Now its full of rocks.The stone piece to the left of it is part of a monument to one of the Highland regiments which was based at Stirling Castle, until it disbanded in 1967 and reformed as a Territorial Army unit (kind of like the US Reserves). The stone column to the right is an Ordnance Survey marker point, the ones used to define the grid for maps in the UK.

Miscellaneous shots from the hll.