Black Rock Gorge, Evanton
I headed up to Evanton yesterday, to have a walk through the Black Rock Gorge, which I had heard was pretty impressive, but had never seem for myself.
Following the OS Walks guide I parked in Evanton and walked up the northern bank of the Allt Graad with a few interesting sections where there had been landslips. After about 1.5km the gorge proper is reached, it is about a 1km long gash though the conglomerate rock about 10-30m deep and 5m wide.
The main paths lead to two obvious bridges across the gorge, but it is worth walking up the southern (right) bank through the woods to a third bridge (which is actually a Scottish Water pipeline bridge) located under the HV pylons.
To go upstream of this point, pick your way through the woods on the northern bank to the upstream end of the gorge. The paths do have a tendency to disappear, either into a clump of fallen trees, or just become not so apparent.
It would have been good to have had a monopod and remote shutter release, to get some better images from unreachable angles, but you live and learn…
Posted at 20:45 on Monday 2nd March 2009 in Outdoors tagged Photography, Scotland, walking, with no comments.

