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Recent Walks
- Yeork-sher: wet boots, mired tyres and abandoned walks
- Mull of Galloway Trail: 5 – moorland, laight, and stane
- Mull of Galloway Trail: 4 – Swans, Gorse and missed turns
- Mull of Galloway Trail: 3 – oh ffs! off piste again
- Mull of Galloway Trail: 2 – trudging over shingle and wading through bracken
- The Mull of Galloway Trail: 1 – overgrown, elusive and unfrequented
- Eden Way: 12 – Water Cut, Ure Force and Ruswarp
- Loch Katrine
- Silver Jubilee Road
- Barlay Hill: another Monica
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Tag Archives: 7stanes
Spooky Woods: the Seventh Stane
5.8 miles 2h 40m ascent 350m Glentress Forest There are 7 stanes and, until today, I had visited only six: The Ghost Stane, The Heart Cleft Stane, The Gem Stane, The Giant Axe Head, The Talking Head Stane and the … Continue reading
Winter Crabapples
6.5 miles 2h 53m 281m ascent Ae forest – mostly red routes carved bench, over the Ae, footpath through deciduous riverside woodland, crabapple/cherry, sour, hips and haws, winter oak and winter beech, washed away paths, excavated paths, gnarled trees, lichen … Continue reading
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Tagged 7stanes, Low Level, Paths, Winter
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Golden Hedgehogs and a Heart of Stone
7.75 miles 3h 40m ascent 283m Dalbeattie Forest-Moyle Hill-Heart Stane There were severe weather warnings for heavy rain and some local fields were already flooded so I ditched the planned route for one away from major waterways and without sections … Continue reading
The Jewelled Loch
5.6 miles 4h 45m ascent 160m Kirroughtree Forest Work, a wedding, Arran’s whisky festival and fine-dining in Whitehaven had kept my walking boots idle for several weekends, so it was good to tighten the laces again and feel the crunch … Continue reading
Marthrown Hill: almost
5.1 miles 2h 34m ascent 336m Route: Mabie Forest, around Marthrown Hill on MTB tracks then up and over in the trees Feeling a little under the weather I decided to ditch the planned walk (which included an FFS section) … Continue reading
The Rig of the Jarkness
9.1 miles 5h 55m ascent 642m Loch Trool-Gairland Glen-Rig of the Jarkness-Craiglee-Glenhead Best done during a hose-pipe ban. I started with a stroll up to Bruce’s Stone overlooking the loch. From there I could see the white water of … Continue reading
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Mystery above the Laggan’s Loch
7.25 miles 2h 15m ascent 252m Craigencallie, Loch Dee, White Laggan and the Glentrool Giant Axe Head I have both driven and walked the road from Clatteringshaws past Craigencallie, but have never actually spotted Craigencallie House, where I planned to … Continue reading
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The Gowans Fyn
4.6 miles 1h 54m 164m ascent Newcastleton, 7 stanes Border Stane A nice easy walk, starting at the 7-stanes Trailhead car park about a mile and half east of Newcastleton. My schoolboy error was to take a … Continue reading