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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
“Always something there to remind me”
About 2.5 miles “Galloway’s coral is at Borron Point, north of Southerness. You get to it (if the tide’s not too high) along a mile of rocky shore from the car park at Powillimount. On the way you pass the … Continue reading
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Assembling on Pibble Hill
2.7 miles 1h 42m 230m ascent Bad weather was forecast with very low cloud so I headed for Pibble Hill, a wee 383m Marilyn near the Clints of Dromore. Most descriptions of walks up this hill come from the Corse … Continue reading
The Glen of the Wildcat
3.3 miles 2h 24m ascent 241m Back Hill of Orchars-Altiwhat-Fell of Fleet A burn, labelled Altiwhat on older OS maps, empties into northern apex of Loch Fleet, the Loch itself becoming the source of Little Water of Fleet. The burn … Continue reading
Temptations below the Clints of Dromore
4.1 miles 2h 10m 260m ascent The Clints of Dromore are a section of steep south facing cliffs at the southern margin of the Cairnsmore of Fleet granite intrusion. The surrounding peat bogs are said to have 10m of peat … Continue reading
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Three Spaniels on Lotus Hill
4.8 miles 2h 40m 311m ascent Forestry tracks, paths (stony, mossy, boggy), pine-needle covered forest walks, heathery moorland, fallen trees, felled trees, distant gunshots, rocky outcrops, erratics, collapsed dykes, burns, bridged and unbridged, forest (conifer, deciduous, felled and replanted), ad … Continue reading
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A Lactation of Conifers
2.7 miles 1 hour 74m ascent Easing myself back in to walks, I decided to visit Morton Castle and explore Morton Woods which proved a shorter walk than I had expected. Morton Castle stands on high ground above Morton Loch. … Continue reading
Squelch, squelch: onomatopoeia by the Pot of Ae
9.0 miles 5h 29m 552m ascent max elevation (Queensberry) 697m Route: Kinnelhead-Blairmark-Harestanes Heights-Mount Glass-Pot of Ae-Lochanhead A gentle stroll up Queensberry from the NE, taking in Harestane Heights (picture above). The forecast said that any rain would clear up … Continue reading
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SUW12.2: the spell lifted
7.8 miles 3h 24m 450m ascent Route: SUW from near Craigbeck (low level route) then along the Selcoth Burn to Sailfoot Despite completing the SUW coast to coast in July, I was left feeling that the job wasn’t done … Continue reading