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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
SUW12: Across the watershed
11 miles 5h 58min 881m ascent; max elevation 637m Croft Head This section took us from D&G into the Borders and over the watershed from rivers flowing to the Irish Sea to those heading for the North Sea. We … Continue reading
Posted in Borders, Dumfries & Galloway
Tagged Annandale Way, Donalds, Grahams, Paths, SUW, Winter
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SUW11: Daer to Beattock
10.6 miles 465m ascent 5h 59m; max elevation 562m Hods Hill Route: SUW We wimped out on Saturday. Sorry, having considered the weather forecast and awoken to howling winds battering hailstones against the windows we rescheduled for Sunday. A good … Continue reading
Posted in Dumfries & Galloway, Lanarkshire
Tagged Annandale Way, Paths, SUW, Wee Hills
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SUW10: The roller-coaster section
11.1 miles 676m ascent 5h 17m; max elevation 725m Lowther Hill Route: SUW Wanlockhead to Daer Reservoir (From the highest village in Scotland, along the Lowther roller-coaster, to the headwaters of the River Clyde.) Another rainy day on … Continue reading
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Tagged Donalds, SUW
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SUW9: Sanquhar to Wanlockhead
8.7 miles 3h 45m ascent 596m; max elevation 483m, slopes of Highmill Knowe Route: SUW Sanquhar to Wanlockhead, and detour to Black Loch A cold dry day with occasional sunshine and the odd glimpse of blue sky. This was a straightforward … Continue reading
Southern Upland Way: The Western Marches
The western section of the SUW, from the North Channel at Portpatrick to the River Nith at Blackaddie Bridge is 91.5 of the SUW’s 212 miles, though our journey clocked up 99 miles with 3669m ascent. The SUW took us … Continue reading
SUW8: Polskeoch to Sanquhar
10.7 miles 4h 47m ascent 368m; max elevation 451m, slopes of Cloud Hill Route: SUW Polskeoch to Sanquhar At the end of SUW7 we had left the SUW just after the Chalk Memorial Bothy taking the “Lorg Trail” through the … Continue reading
Marthrown Hill: almost
5.1 miles 2h 34m ascent 336m Route: Mabie Forest, around Marthrown Hill on MTB tracks then up and over in the trees Feeling a little under the weather I decided to ditch the planned walk (which included an FFS section) … Continue reading
SUW7: Stroanpatrick to Lorg
12.2 miles 6h 5m ascent 648m; max elevation 580m Benbrack Route: The SUW from Stroanpatrick to Polskeoch Bothy then the Lorg Trail to Lorg. At the start of the walk, I actually wondered whether I should leave the waterproof … Continue reading