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Recent Walks
- Yeork-sher: wet boots, mired tyres and abandoned walks
- Mull of Galloway Trail: 5 – moorland, laight, and stane
- Mull of Galloway Trail: 4 – Swans, Gorse and missed turns
- Mull of Galloway Trail: 3 – oh ffs! off piste again
- Mull of Galloway Trail: 2 – trudging over shingle and wading through bracken
- The Mull of Galloway Trail: 1 – overgrown, elusive and unfrequented
- Eden Way: 12 – Water Cut, Ure Force and Ruswarp
- Loch Katrine
- Silver Jubilee Road
- Barlay Hill: another Monica
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Category Archives: Dumfries & Galloway
Mull of Galloway Trail: 5 – moorland, laight, and stane
7.50 miles 4h 25m ascent 310m Cairnryan-Glenapp-Finnart’s Bay BEING WRITTEN The final leg of the Mull of Galloway Trail took us along the Loch Ryan Coastal Path to Glenapp and from there we walked on to Finnarts Bay. Before setting … Continue reading
Mull of Galloway Trail: 4 – Swans, Gorse and missed turns
7.12 miles 3h 56m ascent 38m Stranraer to Cairnryan on The Loch Ryan Coastal Path A puncture on the way to Stranraer had me thinking that we would have to postpone the walk but speedy service by Sandmill MOT Centre … Continue reading
Mull of Galloway Trail: 3 – oh ffs! off piste again
8.31 miles 4h 15m ascent 87m Clayshant Bridge to Agnew Park BEING WRITTEN This should have been an easy stroll from Luce Bay to Loch Ryan. Not too far, indeed perhaps too short a leg. The weather forecast promised a … Continue reading
Mull of Galloway Trail: 2 – trudging over shingle and wading through bracken
9.42 miles 5h 48m ascent 68m Myroch Point to Clayshant Bridge Being Written
The Mull of Galloway Trail: 1 – overgrown, elusive and unfrequented
10.68 miles 5h 42min ascent 279m Part 1: The Mull of Galloway to Myroch Point It had been quite a while since we had had our walking boots on for anything more than ceremonial purposes, so I had planned a … Continue reading
Barlay Hill: another Monica
2.8 miles 1h 4m ascent 75m Another Wee Monica. A forestry track from the Trostan Road, a footpath with a residual red way marker post to the Shambellie forestry track and then the remnants of a footpath up Barlay Hill. … Continue reading
Dalskairth Hill: just checking
1.83 miles 53m ascent 100m
Craigend Hill: third time lucky
2.54 miles 1h 46m ascent 126m