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Recent Walks
- Berwick to the Border, and beyond
- Lowry Trail: Berwick-upon-Tweed
- Collective Nouns: Holy Island to Berwick.
- Remembrance of Things Past
- The Flowers of the Forest: Flodden Field
- Bamburgh: royal castle, aviation museum and a sycamore gap
- Lindisfarne
- A wee horseshoe from Langholm
- Torr Point and Red Haven in 24 degrees
- O’er Burnswark Hill, we cheerily roam’d
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Author Archives: drow 'n smirr
Forrest IV: flight of the dachshund
10.23 miles 5h 36m ascent 430m Burnhead Bridge-Birger Natvig Road-Robert Watson Road-Torrs Hill-Mykola Lysenko Road-Anette Olsen Road-Caroline Currie Road (I think)-Birger Natvig Road-Burnhead Bridge This, the longest of our Forrest jaunts, was without doubt the most trying, though not due … Continue reading
Forrest’s Dungeon and Forlow’s Monument
8.28 miles 3h 52m ascent 310m Forrest-Loch Dungeon-Forlow Monument-Haggis Hawse-Loch Minnoch This outing was planned to visit the memorial that stands beneath Milldown, but we also took in Loch Dungeon and walked by Haggis Hawse and Loch Minnoch. The sun … Continue reading
It’s on Shinmount I’ll Stand
6.04 miles 3h 22m ascent 273m Forrest Bridge-Shinmount Hill-Burnhead As the day draws to closeIt’s on Shinmount I’ll standThe dugs by my sideAnd a stick in my hand
Around Bennan Hill: Larches and lost tracks
6.23 miles 3h 26m ascent 228m Prof Hans Heiberg Rd-Malcolm Mitchell Rd-Charlie Tyeson Rd-Malcolm Mitchell Rd, Prof Hans Heiberg Rd-Ghost Hole
Coltsfoot, Chainsaws and Cullendoch’s heads
8.89 miles 4h 31m ascent 267m Big Water of Fleet Viaduct- Craigwhinnie The plan was to walk up to Loch Grannoch Lodge. Forestry tracks all the way, what could go wrong?
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The Black Loch to the Black Dubs
5.23 miles 2h 13m ascent 189m I mounted at the Water of Ken and had a monstrouse bad road to the Brig of Dee, and from thence to Minygaff. All the way is either full of precipices or rocks. The … Continue reading
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The Old Edinburgh Road 2: squelch, squelch, squelch
8.04 miles 3h 18m ascent 201m Clatteringshaws-Black Strand (and back) To every choice there is a purpose. But such purposes can slip one’s mind. We had paused our planned walks along the Eden Way for the winter, choosing instead to … Continue reading
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The Old Edinburgh Road
10.27 miles 4h 38m ascent 354m Tonderghie Burn-Auchenleck (and back) There must be a great many Old Edinburgh Roads. This one joined Edinburgh, the country’s secular capital, to Whithorn, its religious heart and was a route for pilgrims. James IV* … Continue reading
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