Where the path uphill meets the deer fence just above Old Spittal Farm, the waymarker is on the uphill side of the gate, so I went through the gate and then tracked to the right along the deer fence, following the arrow. The path got rougher and more indistinct and then I realised there was a waymarker on the other side of the fence. I scaled the deer fence to get back on the path, but I'm wondering where I went wrong.
Does anyone know whether I should have stayed below the deer fence all the way, ignoring the fact that the waymarker was beyond the gate, or did I miss a gate that took the path back below the fence at some point?
I ran the sections from Kirkton of Glenisla to Alyth, Bridge of Cally to Kirkmichael and Kirkmichael to Glenisla over the weekend and though I had to consult the map or check the Rucksack Reader notes a few times this is the only place I went wrong. I had company over this section so I think I might have been less vigilant about checking for markers, but I know I'm not the only person to have gone wrong here; there were bootprints along the 'wrong' path and the organiser of this year's Cateran Trail Race describes making the same mistake (which unfortunately didn't help me since I just repeated it
).
