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- 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
Littering far the fields of May
4.1 miles 2h 5m A stroll in Kenick Woods, and along Kenick burn I stepped from the car, breathed in the forest air, let the spaniels loose and went to take a closer look at the white flowers scattered on … Continue reading
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Dog Walking
The bracken is unrolling in the Birch wood, though not to the level at the Wells o’ the Rees. The Hawthorn is in bloom. This cosmopolitan area by the hawthorn has oak, rowan, birch, heather, sphagnum, hair cap, gorse, and … Continue reading
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The Raider’s Road – Manx style
6.8 miles 4h 2min ascent 117m An unusual day out, the distance and time is made up of three walks joined by short hops in the car. it was cool enough for fleeces and though we had a few spots … Continue reading
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A lonely mountain lake in a treeless waste
9.2 miles 3h 30m ascent 283m This was a straightforward there and back route from Craigencallie, along forestry tracks past Loch Dee, over the Laggan Burn and up the slopes of White Hill/Curleywee to the Loch Dee Rosnes Benches. On … Continue reading
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Swallows on Loch Trool
5.1 miles 3h 50m ascent 112m Another Rosnes Bench outing. I was keen this time to find the Covenanter’s Memorial that I had missed on the previous visit to Caldons when we were walking the SUW. We didn’t realise it when … Continue reading
Glentrool, Black Linn and the three Waters
8 miles 4h 30m ascent 185m Black Linn-Minniwick Woods-Bargrennan-Braes of Barmore-Cree Woods Our walk began at Stroan Bridge where the Water of Minnoch cascades through a rocky gorge. The Glentrool visitor centre here once nestled among tall conifers but the forest … Continue reading
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Twas long indeed, a country mile
2.33 country miles 2h 2min 34m ascent Waterhead Rosnes Benches Blanket bog is one of Scotland’s most extensive semi-natural habitats but if I am honest I tend to think of peat bogs as a difficulty to be crossed on the … Continue reading
Lotus Hill with bins
Binoculars. dim. bins; Device worn around neck to ensure no birds are seen. The is the same 4.75 mile route as described in Three Spaniels on Lotus Hill from February. I sit typing this with Eddie curled up next to … Continue reading