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Recent Walks
- Rinns of Galloway Coastal Path: 2 – feral goats, the devil’s own paths and lost forts
- Rinns of Galloway Coastal Path: 1
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- 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
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Author Archives: drow 'n smirr
Balloch Woods
3.11 miles 1h 57m ascent 94m Pond Trail-Larch Trail-Burnside Trail “Corse o’ Slakes, Cross of Rocky Hills – Slakes in Saxon meaning rocky hills or rocky brows. In Galloway there are no roads so wild as the one which leads … Continue reading
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Eden Valley Daffodil Walk
7.35miles 3h 1m ascent 195m Armathwaite-Old Town-High Hesket-Low Hesket “The initial idea was to create 19 memorial sites throughout the UK (19 being the significant number relating to Covid 19). The sites will provide an eternal living memorial, a focal … Continue reading
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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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