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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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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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

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