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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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Author Archives: drow 'n smirr
Yeork-sher: wet boots, mired tyres and abandoned walks
That doesn’t sound particularly promising, does it? But I enjoyed it. The old adage is that good sailors are not made by smooth seas. And the philosophers suggest that enjoyment is perhaps heightened with a wee dash of adversity thrown … Continue reading
Mull of Galloway Trail: 5 – moorland, laight, and stane
7.50 miles 4h 25m ascent 310m Cairnryan-Glenapp-Finnart’s Bay BEING WRITTEN The final leg of the Mull of Galloway Trail took us along the Loch Ryan Coastal Path to Glenapp and from there we walked on to Finnarts Bay. Before setting … Continue reading
Mull of Galloway Trail: 4 – Swans, Gorse and missed turns
7.12 miles 3h 56m ascent 38m Stranraer to Cairnryan on The Loch Ryan Coastal Path A puncture on the way to Stranraer had me thinking that we would have to postpone the walk but speedy service by Sandmill MOT Centre … Continue reading
Mull of Galloway Trail: 3 – oh ffs! off piste again
8.31 miles 4h 15m ascent 87m Clayshant Bridge to Agnew Park BEING WRITTEN This should have been an easy stroll from Luce Bay to Loch Ryan. Not too far, indeed perhaps too short a leg. The weather forecast promised a … Continue reading
Mull of Galloway Trail: 2 – trudging over shingle and wading through bracken
9.42 miles 5h 48m ascent 68m Myroch Point to Clayshant Bridge Being Written
The Mull of Galloway Trail: 1 – overgrown, elusive and unfrequented
10.68 miles 5h 42min ascent 279m Part 1: The Mull of Galloway to Myroch Point It had been quite a while since we had had our walking boots on for anything more than ceremonial purposes, so I had planned a … Continue reading
Eden Way: 12 – Water Cut, Ure Force and Ruswarp
7.1 miles 3h 42m ascent 291m Thrang-Garsdale Station BEING WRITTEN Well, the Eden Way proved to be quite an epic, interrupted as it was by legal lockdowns, common-sense social distances, various illnesses, and bad weather (too hot and too cold). … Continue reading
Loch Katrine
13.4 miles 5h 25m ascent 373m BEING WRITTEN Loch Katrine was gouged by glaciers during the last ice age, named for the highland robbers, ceathairne, such as Rob Roy MacGregor who stalked its surroundings, and co-opted by Victorian engineers, who … Continue reading