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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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Category Archives: Dumfries & Galloway
SUW9.2: Cogshead again
9.7 miles 3h 24m 624m ascent Route: Crawick Water at Nether Cog to Cogshead then the northern SUW loop to Wanlock water and Wanlockhead Between Cogshead and Wanlock Water the SUW offers two routes, and when we last came this … Continue reading
The Southern Upland Way: overview
The 212.6 miles of the southern upland way include coastal cliffs, upland moors, hills and mountains, meadows, riverbanks, loch side paths, farmland, parkland, woodland, country estates, paths across dams, farm tracks, drove roads, roman roads, ancient trade routes, and coffin … Continue reading
Posted in Borders, Dumfries & Galloway, Lanarkshire
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Steygail: scaling the sleeping dog
4.7 miles 2h 24m ascent 496m Route: Up on Dalveen Rig, down the western ridge. Highest point Steygail 573m Steygail means Steep Gable and it stands guarding the Dalveen Pass, a massive steep sided hulk that doesn’t lend itself to … Continue reading
Southern Upland Way: the Middle Marches
The central section of the SUW, from the River Nith at Sanquhar to the River Tweed at Yair Bridge is 70.4 of the SUW’s 212 miles, though our journey clocked up 76.5 miles with 4403m ascent. This took us from … Continue reading
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Tagged Annandale Way, Grahams, Paths, Ruins, Spring, SUW, Wee Hills, Winter
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Darnaw’s Dragonfly Monument
5.8 miles 4h 30m ascent 340m Route: Quarry SE of Clatteringshaws, Low Craignell, Craignell, Darnaw, Dragonfly Monument Then we set off again over two very desolate hills that have for names, as Sammle told me, Craignell and Darnaw. We were high up on them and keeping … Continue reading
The Loch Urr Marilyns
Fell Hill 4.2 miles 2h 1m 265m ascent; Bogrie Hill 2.5 miles 1h 29m 221m ascent These are a couple of wee hills either side of Loch Urr. I imagine in better visibility the views would be better and … Continue reading
SUW12: Across the watershed
11 miles 5h 58min 881m ascent; max elevation 637m Croft Head This section took us from D&G into the Borders and over the watershed from rivers flowing to the Irish Sea to those heading for the North Sea. We … Continue reading
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SUW11: Daer to Beattock
10.6 miles 465m ascent 5h 59m; max elevation 562m Hods Hill Route: SUW We wimped out on Saturday. Sorry, having considered the weather forecast and awoken to howling winds battering hailstones against the windows we rescheduled for Sunday. A good … Continue reading
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