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- 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
Mike, Mabel, (and Christy) visit more Mabie Monicas, and a Marylin
5.04 miles 2h 2m ascent Hillhead Hill, Woodhead Hill That’s the Mabie Monicas done….ish.
Larch Hill: Wee Monica 2
3.26 miles 1h 21m ascent 175m Larch Hill from the Yellow Trail “The planted larch trees are burnished gold. What a wondrous forest they have become.” Tomonari Wee Monica: definition – a hill whose name appears on the OS 1:25K … Continue reading
Mabie’s Monicas: third and fourth
4.2 miles 1h 54m ascent 232m Craigbill Hill, Auchenfad Hill A Monica: a hill with its name on the OS 1:50k. A Wee Monica is named on the 1:25k, but not the 1:50K. Not every hill has a marked spot … Continue reading
Marthrown Hill: revisited (twice)
4.8 miles 2h 12m ascent 273m I would be an exaggeration to say Marthrown Hill has been a thorn in my side but it has been a bit of a prickle. Walking around it these last few weeks brought that … Continue reading
Nine Standards: an Eden Way addendum
4.84 miles 3h 27m ascent 211m boot-wetness: extreme Nateby Common-Nine Standards Rigg circular This was day 3 of our Kirkby Stephen walks, and following the previous day’s exhausting outing, called for a straightforward route that wasn’t too demanding. Indeed, since … Continue reading
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Eden Way: 11 – Eden Springs, the source
6.69 miles 5h 3m ascent 332m Aisgill Moor-Eden Springs circular Between two sister moorland rillsThere is a spot that seems to lieSacred to flow’rets of the hills,And sacred to the sky. We had slightly damp boots but the weather was decent. … Continue reading
Eden Way: 10.2 – where the River Eden begins
6.30 miles 3h 53m ascent 247m Thrang-Hellgill Bridge circular And still of a winter’s night, they say, when the wind is in the trees,When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,When the road is a ribbon of … Continue reading
Eden Way: 9 – The Search for Passage
10.85 miles 5h 48m ascent 227m – Eden Way: 9.47 miles 4h 50m ascent 201m – Poetry Path, 1.38 miles 58m ascent 26m Sandford-Kirkby Stephen-Stenkrith This section of the Eden Way took us from Sandford Bridge to Stenkrith Park in … Continue reading