-
Recent Walks
- Rinns of Galloway Coastal Path: 2 – feral goats, the devil’s own paths and lost forts
- Rinns of Galloway Coastal Path: 1
- Berwick to the Border, and beyond
- Lowry Trail: Berwick-upon-Tweed
- Collective Nouns: Holy Island to Berwick.
- Remembrance of Things Past
- The Flowers of the Forest: Flodden Field
- Bamburgh: royal castle, aviation museum and a sycamore gap
- Lindisfarne
- A wee horseshoe from Langholm
Archives
Categories
Tags
- 7stanes
- Ae
- Annandale Way
- Arran
- Ayrshire Coastal Path
- Comedy Way
- Corbetts
- Cumbrian Coastal Way
- Cumbria Way
- Donalds
- driving
- Eden Way
- England Coast Path
- Forrest Estate
- Grahams
- Great Trossachs Path
- Hadrian's Coastal Route
- Hadrian's Wall
- Limestone Way
- Low Level
- Monica
- Mull of Galloway Trail
- Munros
- Nithsdale
- pandemic
- Paths
- Raiders
- Raiders Road
- RGCP
- Ribble Way
- River Ayr Way
- Romans and Reivers
- Rosnes Benches
- Ruins
- Skiing
- Spring
- SUW
- Three Peaks
- Wainwrights
- Wee Hills
- Winter
Category Archives: Dumfries & Galloway
Three Spaniels on Lotus Hill
4.8 miles 2h 40m 311m ascent Forestry tracks, paths (stony, mossy, boggy), pine-needle covered forest walks, heathery moorland, fallen trees, felled trees, distant gunshots, rocky outcrops, erratics, collapsed dykes, burns, bridged and unbridged, forest (conifer, deciduous, felled and replanted), ad … Continue reading
Posted in Dumfries & Galloway
Tagged Low Level, Wee Hills
Comments Off on Three Spaniels on Lotus Hill
A Lactation of Conifers
2.7 miles 1 hour 74m ascent Easing myself back in to walks, I decided to visit Morton Castle and explore Morton Woods which proved a shorter walk than I had expected. Morton Castle stands on high ground above Morton Loch. … Continue reading
Squelch, squelch: onomatopoeia by the Pot of Ae
9.0 miles 5h 29m 552m ascent max elevation (Queensberry) 697m Route: Kinnelhead-Blairmark-Harestanes Heights-Mount Glass-Pot of Ae-Lochanhead A gentle stroll up Queensberry from the NE, taking in Harestane Heights (picture above). The forecast said that any rain would clear up … Continue reading
Posted in Dumfries & Galloway
Tagged Donalds, Grahams
Comments Off on Squelch, squelch: onomatopoeia by the Pot of Ae
SUW12.2: the spell lifted
7.8 miles 3h 24m 450m ascent Route: SUW from near Craigbeck (low level route) then along the Selcoth Burn to Sailfoot Despite completing the SUW coast to coast in July, I was left feeling that the job wasn’t done … Continue reading
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
Tagged SUW
Comments Off on The Southern Upland Way: overview
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
Posted in Borders, Dumfries & Galloway, Lanarkshire
Tagged Annandale Way, Grahams, Paths, Ruins, Spring, SUW, Wee Hills, Winter
Comments Off on Southern Upland Way: the Middle Marches