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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
St Anns to Lochmaben: AW3
10.1 miles 167m ascent 3h 20mins Weather: excellent We waited, Jo and I, at Lochthorn, then joined the convoy to Lochmaben. Then sardine style to St Anns. A veritable menagerie presented itself during this walk: caterpillars, white sheep, black sheep, … Continue reading
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Black Loch and the Eye
5.6 miles 238m ascent 2h 5mins Having driven in drizzle along the Queen’s Way we parked up opposite the wild goat park on Craigdews Hill. The weather was threatening to rain though it held off for a while. I’ve driven … Continue reading
Moffat to St Ann’s: The Drenching part 2 (AW2)
Rain, heavy rain, rain, heavy rain, drizzle, rain, mizzle, rain, drizzle. Jupiter Pluvius awoke and practised his art. The forecast was an inch of rain. Could we rise to this challenge? Should we? Unfortunately some form of chip-related affliction had … Continue reading
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Devil’s Beef Tub in drizzle: AW1
Bad weather was forecast but we were lucky in that we had drizzle rather than heavy rain. Unfortunately the wet ground and wet air uncovered footwear gore-tex failure for David and myself. This was our first go at the Annandale … Continue reading
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Shalloch on Minnoch
This outing began with a long drive since I had to come at the hill from either the north or west and both the Galloway forest park and Loch Doon meant there were no direct roads. I thought the quickest … Continue reading
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Rhinns of Kells
The forest tracks in this estate all have road names and as usual many are not shown on the OS map. There is a map at the car park with the named roads on but I had not paid quite … Continue reading
Hearts and Heroes 2010
The sassenachs were fed freshly caught haggis and shortbread by the Wylies at the pre-walk team meeting. Then from what I can gather were tortured by electronic beeping to prevent a good night’s sleep. An early morning start, 4.30am for … Continue reading
Mabie – wild cyclists
Our last walk before the big one. I am beginning to believe I could walk this path with my eyes closed, but I’d probably twist an ankle trying it. We need to find an alternative default walk and leave Mabie … Continue reading