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Recent Walks
- Berwick to the Border, and beyond
- Lowry Trail: Berwick-upon-Tweed
- Collective Nouns: Holy Island to Berwick.
- Remembrance of Things Past
- 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
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Author Archives: drow 'n smirr
Three Peaks: Day 2 – Ingleborough, limestone pavements and powdery primulas
9.28 miles 6h 22min ascent 470m Ribblehead-Gauber quarry-Park Fell-Souther Scales Fell-Swine Tail-Ingleborough-Sulber Nick-Horton Ingleborough is the second highest of the Yorkshire Three Peaks and the second of our Three Peaks’ walks. After a very wet outing the day before, we … Continue reading
Three Peaks: Day 1 – Pen-y-Ghent in wild weather
8.73 miles 5h 56min ascent 533m Horton-Brackenbottom-Pen y Ghent-Plover Hill-Foxup Moor-Horton Moor As soon as we arrived in Horton it was obvious we would be walking in waterproofs. We began with drizzle (which my mother claimed would wet you more … Continue reading
Yeork-sher: wet boots, mired tyres and abandoned walks
That doesn’t sound particularly promising, does it? But I enjoyed it. The old adage is that good sailors are not made by smooth seas. And the philosophers suggest that enjoyment is perhaps heightened with a wee dash of adversity thrown … Continue reading
Mull of Galloway Trail: 5 – moorland, laight, and stane
7.50 miles 4h 25m ascent 310m Cairnryan-Glenapp-Finnart’s Bay The final leg of the Mull of Galloway Trail took us along the Loch Ryan Coastal Path to Glenapp and from there we walked on to Finnarts Bay. The name Glenapp might … Continue reading
Mull of Galloway Trail: 4 – Swans, Gorse and missed turns
7.12 miles 3h 56m ascent 38m Stranraer to Cairnryan on The Loch Ryan Coastal Path A puncture on the way to Stranraer had me thinking that we would have to postpone the walk but speedy service by Sandmill MOT Centre … Continue reading
Mull of Galloway Trail: 3 – oh ffs! off piste again
8.31 miles 4h 15m ascent 87m Clayshant Bridge to Agnew Park This should have been an easy stroll from Luce Bay to Loch Ryan. Not too far, indeed perhaps too short a leg. The weather forecast promised a hot sunny … Continue reading
Mull of Galloway Trail: 2 – trudging over shingle and wading through bracken
9.42 miles 5h 48m ascent 68m Myroch Point to Clayshant Bridge
The Mull of Galloway Trail: 1 – overgrown, elusive and unfrequented
10.68 miles 5h 42min ascent 279m Part 1: The Mull of Galloway to Myroch Point It had been quite a while since we had had our walking boots on for anything more than ceremonial purposes, so I had planned a … Continue reading