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Recent Walks
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- 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
Locharthur Hill: an asterisked Mabie Monica
4.52 miles 1h 50m ascent 183m – failure 24/11/2022 4.24 miles 2h 2m ascent 145m -success 25/11/2022 A Monica is a hill named on the OS 1:50k map. A Mabie Monica is such a hill in Mabie. Some hills don’t … Continue reading
Eden Way: 10.1 – the part we missed out
6.48 miles 4h 12m ascent 197m Stenkrith Park-Thrang Part 10 was to be Stenkrith to Hellgill with a loop back to Thrang along the Pennine Bridleway. But misfortune struck and we only managed the Thrang-Hellgill-Thrang loop of part 10. We … Continue reading
Craigend Hill: Failing from the SE
1.67 miles 1h 22m ascent only about 80m Second failure, in two days, to reach its summit. The first, yesterday: I had intended going from the summit of Lochbank Hill across the Craigend Hill, which is really just a second … Continue reading
Lochbank Hill: Another Monica
2.37 miles 1h 14m ascent 137m I had intended walking up Lochbank Hill then across to Craigend Hill but Lochbank had been recently felled and was a bit of a trudge, finding a way though the debris. I didn’t fancy … Continue reading
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