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- 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: Winter
Windlestraw winterland
9.48 miles 5h 37m ascent 838m Glentress Rig-Windlestraw Law-Siller Road-Whitehope Law A winter’s day. Snow fell as I got my kit on and it proved colder than I expected. My fingers were soon numb making rummaging in the rucksack … Continue reading
Moorfoot’s: enchanted giants, secret cables and frozen land
11.4 miles 5h 3min ascent 569m Blackhope Scar-Bowbeat Hill-Dundreich-Jeffries Corse It was a crisp cold morning with a forecast for snow flurries and summit temperatures of -4° C. Wondering what a flurry might be I had researched this prior to the … Continue reading
The Glenrath Hills: all four Donalds
13.2 miles 6h 58m ascent 926m Windy Neese-Dun Rig-Birkscairn Hill-Glenrath Heights-Stob Law Last week I abandoned my expedition to these hills at Stob Law. If at first you don’t succeed…. try it anticlockwise. The Manor Glen at Glenrath looked the … Continue reading
The Glenrath hills: bailing after Stob Law
4.3 miles 3h 2min ascent 446m Stob Law Mrs Drow ‘n’ Smirr had gathered her brows like a gathering storm. Her view being that the weather forecast and my plans for the Dun Rig Donalds were incompatible. I was not to be … Continue reading
Crunching and Crackling over Cauldcleuch Head
7.1 miles 4h 32m ascent 521m Stob Fell-Pennygant Hill-Cauldcleuch Head-Millstone Edge-Tudhope Hill There is a plantation of larch and spruce on the road above Billhope with space to park a car or two at its gate. From there, in bright … Continue reading
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Tagged Donalds, Grahams, Winter
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Heatherstane Law from Lamington
11.1 miles 5h 19m ascent 674m Hardrig Head-Whitelaw Brae-Windgate Bank-Hudderstone This walk started at a pleasant car park near the church in Lamington. There is a tree lined single track road leading up to Baitlaws which would be good for … Continue reading
Woodhead Hill – an itch scratched
4.16 miles 1h 51m ascent 262m Woodhead Hill is my closest Marylin. I see it most days. That its name does not have a tick next to it has been an irritation for some time. This was the last weekend of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Wee Hills, Winter
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See Morris Hill
2.26 miles 50 mins 162 m ascent A very short walk and an easy route. I started from the foot of the track to Riddingshill and followed the road up until I was just below the giant aerial. From there … Continue reading