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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
The Gowans Fyn
4.6 miles 1h 54m 164m ascent Newcastleton, 7 stanes Border Stane A nice easy walk, starting at the 7-stanes Trailhead car park about a mile and half east of Newcastleton. My schoolboy error was to take a … Continue reading
Heart, Mote and Slab
6.4 miles 1h 55m 174m ascent This was a brief stroll through Dalbeattie Forest in pleasant weather. We had previously walked the Dalbeattie to Colvend path (once in rain, once in sunshine) but this time started at the … Continue reading
Deep in the forest
8.5 miles 2h 20min 320m ascent Ae Forest in search of the 7 Stanes. The weather was not the thundery heavy rain forecast, just a persistent drizzle (smirr). The route took us from the main car-park along a track … Continue reading
Law, Shank, Hill, Fell, Craig and Pen
9.6 miles 4h 43m 823m ascent The Ettrick Horseshoe: Bodesbeck Law, White Shank, Smidhope Hill, Capel Fell, Wind Fell, Hopetoun Craig, Ettrick Pen. Plan B (version 3). The original plan was the Awful Hand Ridge as a linear walk … Continue reading
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Galloway Wild Art
This is a repeat of the northern section of the Black Loch and the Eye walk, but this time in sunshine rather than rain. We went up the track from the Queen’s Way to the eastern end of Black Loch … Continue reading
The Silver Flowe
6.4 miles 4h 31m 511m ascent Backhill of Bush, the Silver Flowe, Nick of the Dungeon, Dungeon Hill, the Devil’s Bowling Green and Craignaw. The forecast was for rain and low cloud but as I … Continue reading
Mabie by the uphill path
6.3 miles 1h 55m 340m ascent A relatively short walk but with quite a bit of ascent for a Mabie stroll. Our usual route has about 100m less of ascent and most of that is concentrated in the … Continue reading
Following the fence posts to Curleywee
6.1 miles 3h 38m 592 m ascent A round of the Minnigaff hills: Larg Hill, Lamachan Hill, Bennanbrack and Curleywee. After the many wet and cloudy weekends we were at last blessed with sun. I … Continue reading
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