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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
The Glen of the Pullaugh Burn: 2 – in the wind
9.09 miles 3h 34m ascent 230m It was a windy day. The forecast had wind speeds of 40-47 mph, but I suspect we missed the worst of it. But there were fallen trees. Some had been toppled roots and all, … Continue reading
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Mossdale to Gatehouse Station Railway Path
8.47 miles 3h 37m ascent 131m (in light drizzle) Mossdale to Skerrow Halt (and back) This was the last part of our January Railway Walk, another there and back outing since unnecessary car sharing is still frowned upon. I’m not … Continue reading
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Once more unto Skerrow Halt
10.13 miles 4h 20m ascent 179m Big Water of Fleet to Skerrow Halt (and back) Winter’s winds chilled the air and days of rain had saturated the ground. 2o22 had arrived with an unwelcome plus-one, the Omicron Variant, so car … Continue reading
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First outing of 2022
3.53 miles 1h 41m ascent 61m Big Water of Fleet to Gatehouse Station (and back) Good to be out and about. We had clear skies but it was bitterly cold. On a warmer day I might have walked up to … Continue reading
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Eden Way: 6 – Red River and Hag Wood
6.93 miles 3h 26m ascent 121m Langwathby-Temple Sowerby (6.4 miles of the Eden Way) The days grew shorter, frost clung to morning windscreens and we were venturing further away with each leg of the Eden Way. So we had decided … Continue reading
Eden Way: Megaliths, ancient and modern
7.89 miles 4h 30m ascent 151m Edenbridge-Edenhall (5.8 miles on the Eden Way) This walk was mostly over fields or through woodland but with some road walking. There were more gates than stiles, what quagmire we found was manageable and … Continue reading
Eden Way: From Vista to Cypher
6.24 miles 3h 7m 184m ascent Armathwaite to Eden Bridge Blue skies and sunshine above, crisp newly fallen golden leaves underfoot. This was as beautiful a day as autumn can muster. This section took us between two eighteenth century bridges, … Continue reading
Eden Way: Ninety-nine steps to Armathwaite Bridge
9.34 miles 5h 24m ascent 240m Wetheral-Armathwaite (Eden Way) Well, that was some walk. The Eden Way Guidebook has Carlisle to Armathwaite as a single day but being <insert jocular self deprecating adjective here> we chose to split it over … Continue reading