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Recent Walks
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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
- 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
Trusty’s Hill
3.75 miles 1h 50m ascent 114m Gatehouse of Fleet- Trusty’s Hill-Rutherford Monument-Anwoth Drust’s Hill, wet walk, pictish carvings, monument 1 and 2, old kirk
Cumbria Way: Yan – long miles and bog rosemary
17 miles 560m ascent 8h 31m Cumbria Way: Ulverston-Coniston This was our first section of the Cumbria Way, from Ulverston to Coniston. We drove to Coniston, parked the car near the Crown Inn, and caught the X12 bus to Ulvertson, but … Continue reading
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Cumbria Way
The Cumbria Way is a 74 mile trail from Ulverston to Carlisle passing through the Lake District. We walked the Way in seven sections varying in length from 8.3 to 17 miles. Yan: Ulverston to Coniston Tyan: Coniston to Old … Continue reading
Spring 2017
Walking the dogs and I realised spring is definitely here. The equinox passed a couple of weeks ago, the air is filled with birdsong, some recognisable (teacher-teacher), some not, and though the broadleaves still stand bare, they have buds aplenty … Continue reading
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Grey Mare’s Tail
3.7 miles 3h 5m 344m ascent Grey Mare’s Tail and Loch Skene Originally planned as a walk to White Coomb but the Tail Burn was in spate, so we walked a little way along the loch’s eastern bank then went … Continue reading
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Fingland Glen again
5.7 miles 2h 45m ascent 356m This was a repeat of November’s Snow on Colt Hill walk, but with less snow, less icy wind, more birdsong, an extra dog (Sweep came along as well as Eddie), and a red squirrel on … Continue reading
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The Glen of the Stream: Gleann an t-Sruthail (Trool)
6.2 miles 2h 40m 355m ascent Loch Trool Circular After the wildness of Loch Trool we had a country of plenteousness and peace. (The Heather Moon) Stricken with the flu then cursed with a dodgy knee, I had been out … Continue reading
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The Glen of the Dock Leaves
3.8 miles 1h 45m 178m ascent Glengap Forest Another wee forest walk, this time in Glengap forest which takes its name from dock leaves. I had drawn out a simplified route on the back of an envelope, using the OS … Continue reading
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