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- Bamburgh: royal castle, aviation museum and a sycamore gap
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- 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
Nine Standards: an Eden Way addendum
4.84 miles 3h 27m ascent 211m boot-wetness: extreme Nateby Common-Nine Standards Rigg circular This was day 3 of our Kirkby Stephen walks, and following the previous day’s exhausting outing, called for a straightforward route that wasn’t too demanding. Indeed, since … Continue reading
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Eden Way: 11 – Eden Springs, the source
6.69 miles 5h 3m ascent 332m Aisgill Moor-Eden Springs circular Between two sister moorland rillsThere is a spot that seems to lieSacred to flow’rets of the hills,And sacred to the sky. We had slightly damp boots but the weather was decent. … Continue reading
Eden Way: 10.2 – where the River Eden begins
6.30 miles 3h 53m ascent 247m Thrang-Hellgill Bridge circular And still of a winter’s night, they say, when the wind is in the trees,When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,When the road is a ribbon of … Continue reading
Eden Way: 9 – The Search for Passage
10.85 miles 5h 48m ascent 227m – Eden Way: 9.47 miles 4h 50m ascent 201m – Poetry Path, 1.38 miles 58m ascent 26m Sandford-Kirkby Stephen-Stenkrith This section of the Eden Way took us from Sandford Bridge to Stenkrith Park in … Continue reading
Eden Way: 8 – Appleby-in-Westmorland
8.68 miles 4h 43m ascent 219m Colby-Sandford We had finished the last section a little way off the Eden Way. The closest parking had been where Colby Bridge crosses Hoff Beck, half a mile off the Way. Luckily, a public … Continue reading
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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