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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
Castlemaddy: clambering over fallen trees II
6.56 miles 3h 30m ascent 201m Polmaddy-Castlemaddy A simple walk from the parking area at Polmaddy, up the forestry track to Castlemaddy then back by the Pack Road to the Polmaddy Fermtoun.
Signalhøjden: midges, magnets and murals
5 miles 3h 4m ascent 432m Signalhøjden, Narsarsuaq, Greenland Breakfast: scrambled eggs, crispy bacon and mushrooms. View: an iceberg strewn fjord, on one side Erik the Red had established a Norse outpost in 986 AD, on the other, the US … Continue reading
Glenkens Pilgrim’s Way: a midsummer walk
7.74 miles 5h 9m ascent 252m The Ordnance Survey shows a footpath between Polmaddy and Carsphairn. For more than 500 years it was part of the main route through the Glenkens to the south coast. It was once part of … Continue reading
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High Craigeazle: a trio of memorials
6.90 miles 3h 54m ascent 305m (1000 feet) Brockloch Bridge-High Craigeazle-Dunkitterick Cottage “I was born on Sunday, the 22d of October 1775, (I ascertained these points in 1805,— I did not exactly know my age in 1794) and baptized a … Continue reading
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Spooky Woods: the Seventh Stane
5.8 miles 2h 40m ascent 350m Glentress Forest There are 7 stanes and, until today, I had visited only six: The Ghost Stane, The Heart Cleft Stane, The Gem Stane, The Giant Axe Head, The Talking Head Stane and the … Continue reading
Maxwell’s Otter, Myrton Loch and the Quarrel Megaliths
8.03 miles 3h 35m ascent 161m St Medan-Monreith-Myrton-Drumtroddan Stones (return) A bronze otter stands on the lichen covered rocks of Craigengour. His head is turned to look over the Lag promontory towards the Isle of Man, on the horizon. A … Continue reading
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Conquering Cruggleton Castle
5.98 miles 3h 47m ascent 110 Garlieston-Cruggleton return, and Torhouse Circle Garlieston Harbour is the closest port in Scotland to the Isle of Man. A sign warns that this is a working harbour and I can understand why such a … Continue reading
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No Particular Place to Go
3.15 miles about 1.5h 166m ascent Near Bala, Gwynedd I sat nursing the last vestiges of a hangover, warmed by the afternoon sun. The planned morning walk had not panned out. We had found the lakeside path closed. Three generations … Continue reading