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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
Eden Way: Britanniar Regina to Wetheral Cross
7.1 miles 3h 10m ascent 82m Carlisle-Scotby-Wetheral Continuing our Eden Way Walk. Picking up in Carlisle, downstream of which we have walked both banks of the Eden, on the Hadrian’s Wall trail (south bank) and the Cumbrian Coastal Way (north … Continue reading
Eden Way Part 1
5.81 miles 3hr 1min ascent 34m Rockcliff to Esk Boathouse This was the final leg of our Cumbria Coastal Way, heading north from Rockcliffe up to the Esk Boathouse, but also the first part of the Eden Way, from Desmesne … Continue reading
Eden Way Discovered: Rockcliffe to Spa Well
8.07 miles (there and back) 4h 50m ascent 65m Rockcliffe to Spa Well (Cumbria Coastal Way) A beautiful day. Easy walking in riverside meadows, fields and paths. A couple of kissing gates but more often stiles, mostly well constructed with … Continue reading
The Fastness of Buchan
10.44 miles 5h 12m ascent 271m Craigencallie-Back Hill of Bush The Dungeon of Buchan is not a deep dark prison. It is an Daingean, the stronghold of Buchan. In the photograph above I am beneath its ramparts. But don’t be … Continue reading
The Midges of Minnoch
7.14 miles 4h 25m ascent 166m Phew! It was too hot for hill walking, but escaping sunstroke would mean braving meanbh-chuileag and their buzzing buddies. Midge bites won over sunstroke. Sphagnum, purple moor grass and soft rush are the midges … Continue reading
Raiders: The Merrick
8.84 miles 6h 40m ascent 865mMossdale to Merrick (part 6) This, part 7 of our Raiders walks, was the sixth and final of the Mossdale to Merrick trail. As with each of the other Raiders’ sections we walked the same … Continue reading
Raiders: mountain, strath and stream
Mossdale to Merrick (part 5)7.89 miles 4h 24m ascent 322m Loch Trool to Loch Dee The sixth of our Raiders walks took us from the “treeless waste around the lonely mountain lake”, Loch Dee, to the “sylvan woods and bright … Continue reading
The Raiders: worts and all
8.88 miles 4h 28m ascent 217mMossdale to Merrick (part 4) Craigencallie to the Axe Head Stane Part 5 of our Raiders outings took us from Craigencallie to the Axe Head Stane (and back). Had car sharing been allowed this section … Continue reading