Category Archives: Borders

Taberon Law to The Scrape

June 4, 2013

9.6 miles   4h 34min   ascent 757m Taberon Law-Middle Hill-Pykestone Hill-The Scrape My red face and arms following this outing are testimony to the sunny weather, but I still found the wind cool enough to need a jacket at … Continue reading →

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Cramalt Craig and its Tops

May 26, 2013

12.7 miles  6h 23m  ascent 997m Cauldstane Rig-Lair Knowe-Greenside Law-Shielhope Head-Notman Law-Dun Law-Cramalt Craig-Hunt Law-Pykestone Knowe-Clockmore Being the end of May, Summer had shown itself at last. I parked by the viewing area by the Megget reservoir under full cloud … Continue reading →

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Ellers Cleuch Round

May 11, 2013

5.3 miles  2h 53min   ascent 496m Strawberry Hill-Garelet Dod-Ellers Cleuch Rig-Din Law A bad weather day: drow ‘n’ smirr, with strong winds. I drove past the Menzion stones on the way in and parked at end of Fruid reservoir. … Continue reading →

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The Garden Path: Windy Gyle and the Cheviot

May 5, 2013

13.9 miles   5h 47m   780m ascent Windy Gyle-The Cheviot-Auchope Cairn My final Donald, hence my grin in the photograph above. Though this was my longest drive for a Donald-bagging outing, in time if not miles, we still found … Continue reading →

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Windlestraw winterland

March 9, 2013

9.48 miles   5h 37m  ascent 838m Glentress Rig-Windlestraw Law-Siller Road-Whitehope Law A winter’s day. Snow fell as I got my kit on and it proved colder than I expected. My fingers were soon numb making rummaging in the rucksack … Continue reading →

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Moorfoot’s: enchanted giants, secret cables and frozen land

February 23, 2013

11.4 miles  5h 3min   ascent 569m Blackhope Scar-Bowbeat Hill-Dundreich-Jeffries Corse It was a crisp cold morning with a forecast for snow flurries and summit temperatures of -4° C. Wondering what a flurry might be I had researched this prior to the … Continue reading →

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The Glenrath Hills: all four Donalds

February 16, 2013

13.2 miles  6h 58m  ascent 926m Windy Neese-Dun Rig-Birkscairn Hill-Glenrath Heights-Stob Law Last week I abandoned my expedition to these hills at Stob Law. If at first you don’t succeed….  try it anticlockwise. The Manor Glen at Glenrath looked the … Continue reading →

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The Glenrath hills: bailing after Stob Law

February 10, 2013

4.3 miles 3h 2min  ascent 446m Stob Law Mrs Drow ‘n’ Smirr had gathered her brows like a gathering storm. Her view being that the weather forecast and my plans for the Dun Rig Donalds were incompatible. I was not to be … Continue reading →

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