Category Archives: Ayrshire

Beyond yon hills where Stinsiar flows

April 4, 2015

4.8 miles 3h 48m ascent 222m Peden’s Hut-Shiel Hill-Cornish Loch-Cornish Hill Beyond yon hills where Stinsiar* flows, ‘mang muirs and mosses many… By Girvan’s fairy-haunted stream, The birdies flit on wanton wing; While bank and brae are clothed in green, … Continue reading →

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Craiglee and the Wee Hills

July 27, 2013

4.8 miles  3h 30m  ascent 366m Route: Wee Hill of Craigmullach-Craiglee-Mulluss The Range of hills called the Awful Hand can be seen, by those of elastic imagination, as a hand reaching onto the land from the depths of the earth. … Continue reading →

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The Donalds

July 15, 2013

A little history Percy Donald, wrote “The two-thousand feet tops of the Scottish lowland uplands” for the journal of the Scottish Mountaineering Club in 1935, listing 133 tops and 15 humps in southern Scotland. He had decided to visit all … Continue reading →

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Lowly Dugland

June 15, 2013

12.5 miles  5h 30m  611m ascent Trostan Hill-Windy Standard-Dugland Dugland was No.133 on Percy Donald’s list of “two-thousand feet tops of the Scottish lowland uplands” but it has been struck from modern list now its height is reckoned to be … Continue reading →

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Coran of Portmark

April 22, 2012

12.3 miles  6h 25m  719m ascent Loch Doon-Coran of Portmark-Bow-Knockower-Black Craig-Loch Doon The primary aim of this walk was to climb Coran of Portmark, since previous visits to the Rhinns of Kells had come off over Cairnsgarroch, leaving Bow, the … Continue reading →

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The Blackcraig

April 15, 2012

9.8 miles  5h 44m   900m ascent Blackcraig-Blacklorg-Meikledodd-Alwhat-Cannock Hill-Craigbraneoch A beautiful day so I set off for the Afton hills. I parked the car on the Afton road before Craigdarroch Farm and got kitted out under the watchful eyes of … Continue reading →

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Kirriereoch

March 29, 2012

6.8 miles    3h 40m     ascent 605m Tarfessock-Kirriereoch Kirriereoch and Tarfessock had been on my to-do list for a while. Unfortunately my research suggested there was no easy way up these two hills. The walk from Slaethornrig looked … Continue reading →

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Windy Standard in the snow

February 12, 2012

9.5 miles   4h 28m   ascent 511m Afton-Jedburgh Knees-Windy Standard-Blackgrane-Millaneoch-Wedder Hill A walk in the snow. Windy Standard has eluded me on a previous walk which I abandoned in bad weather. As you can see from the picture, the … Continue reading →

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