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Recent Walks
- Yeork-sher: wet boots, mired tyres and abandoned walks
- Mull of Galloway Trail: 5 – moorland, laight, and stane
- Mull of Galloway Trail: 4 – Swans, Gorse and missed turns
- Mull of Galloway Trail: 3 – oh ffs! off piste again
- Mull of Galloway Trail: 2 – trudging over shingle and wading through bracken
- The Mull of Galloway Trail: 1 – overgrown, elusive and unfrequented
- Eden Way: 12 – Water Cut, Ure Force and Ruswarp
- Loch Katrine
- Silver Jubilee Road
- Barlay Hill: another Monica
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Author Archives: drow 'n smirr
Silver Jubilee Road
9.2 miles 3h 37min ascent 344m The Silver Jubilee Road, which from its name must date back to 1977, was to be a multi-use (vehicles, horses, legs) trail in the beautiful Tweedsmuir hills. There were to be seven stops: Covenanter’s … Continue reading
Barlay Hill: another Monica
2.8 miles 1h 4m ascent 75m Another Wee Monica. A forestry track from the Trostan Road, a footpath with a residual red way marker post to the Shambellie forestry track and then the remnants of a footpath up Barlay Hill. … Continue reading
Dalskairth Hill: just checking
1.83 miles 53m ascent 100m
Craigend Hill: third time lucky
2.54 miles 1h 46m ascent 126m
Locharthur Hill: an asterisked Mabie Monica
4.52 miles 1h 50m ascent 183m – failure 24/11/2022 4.24 miles 2h 2m ascent 145m -success 25/11/2022 A Monica is a hill named on the OS 1:50k map. A Mabie Monica is such a hill in Mabie. Some hills don’t … Continue reading
Eden Way: 10.1 – the part we missed out
6.48 miles 4h 12m ascent 197m Stenkrith Park-Thrang Part 10 was to be Stenkrith to Hellgill with a loop back to Thrang along the Pennine Bridleway. But misfortune struck and we only managed the Thrang-Hellgill-Thrang loop of part 10. We … Continue reading
Craigend Hill: Failing from the SE
1.67 miles 1h 22m ascent only about 80m Second failure, in two days, to reach its summit. The first, yesterday: I had intended going from the summit of Lochbank Hill across the Craigend Hill, which is really just a second … Continue reading
Lochbank Hill: Another Monica
2.37 miles 1h 14m ascent 137m I had intended walking up Lochbank Hill then across to Craigend Hill but Lochbank had been recently felled and was a bit of a trudge, finding a way though the debris. I didn’t fancy … Continue reading