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Recent Walks
- 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
- Quintinshill and the River Sark
- The Debatable Lands on the King Charles III England Coast Path
- Two roads diverged in a yellow wood: Annandale Way – Lockerbie variant (part 2)
- Two roads diverged in a yellow wood: Annandale Way – Lockerbie variant (part 1)
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Author Archives: drow 'n smirr
Hadrian’s Coastal Route 1: Where the dirt is clean
12.3 miles 5h 4m 114m ascent Ravenglass-Beckermet Having completed our walk along the Hadrian’s Wall route last year we have spent the last few months thinking about our next walk and the book Hadrian’s Coastal Route: Ravenglass to Bowness-on-Solway: Walker’s … Continue reading
Freezing winds on Great Sca Fell
5.8 miles 3h 14m 457m ascent Longhands-Little Sca Fell-Great Sca Fell-Meal Fell-Trusmadoor A day may come when we are warmed by the shining sun, when we forsake our jackets, and don our sunhats and shades. But it is not this … Continue reading
What’s a Currick?
6.5 miles 4h 45min ascent 397m Cold Fell 621m Currack, A cairn i.e a pile of stones. See cairn.Currick, A North Pennines name for a cairn i.e a pile of stones. Used to identify a place or boundary or mark a route. They were … Continue reading
Fifty-eight metres off Blencathra summit
3.88 miles 590m ascent 3h 35m Scales Fell It has been some time since I have written up a walk, but the time has at last come. When last I ventured on to the Saddleback I mused that we had … Continue reading
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Knockespen – two hills make one
8.05 miles 3h 20m ascent 279m Knockespen 344m When I woke the air was chilled, the sky dry. The car frozen, and as I loaded it hail was falling. As we arrived at Ae the snow was falling and the … Continue reading
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Skerrow Halt Again
8.4 miles 3h 52 min ascent 93m Stroan Loch to a little way past Skerrow Halt, and back We had been heavy rain in the previous days so my planned walk, which would have included a stroll through boggy terrain, was … Continue reading
Wether Hill: a quiet windfarm
8.24 miles 3h 23m ascent 386m Wether Hill (Christy’s first Marilyn) After an unintentional detour, and some uncertainty as to whether I had started the walk in the correct place, the car was parked and i sat looking out at … Continue reading
Nick o’ the Dead Man’s Banes
8.6 miles 4h 9m ascent 302m Cullendoch-Loch Fleet A heron watched us then took flight as we eased our way to the parking spot near Little Cullendoch. This usually has space for a three or four cars, and though it proved a … Continue reading