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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
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Category Archives: Dumfries & Galloway
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
Posted in Borders, Dumfries & Galloway
Tagged Annandale Way, Donalds, Grahams, Paths, SUW, Winter
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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
Posted in Dumfries & Galloway, Lanarkshire
Tagged Annandale Way, Paths, SUW, Wee Hills
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SUW10: The roller-coaster section
11.1 miles 676m ascent 5h 17m; max elevation 725m Lowther Hill Route: SUW Wanlockhead to Daer Reservoir (From the highest village in Scotland, along the Lowther roller-coaster, to the headwaters of the River Clyde.) Another rainy day on … Continue reading
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Tagged Donalds, SUW
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SUW9: Sanquhar to Wanlockhead
8.7 miles 3h 45m ascent 596m; max elevation 483m, slopes of Highmill Knowe Route: SUW Sanquhar to Wanlockhead, and detour to Black Loch A cold dry day with occasional sunshine and the odd glimpse of blue sky. This was a straightforward … Continue reading
Southern Upland Way: The Western Marches
The western section of the SUW, from the North Channel at Portpatrick to the River Nith at Blackaddie Bridge is 91.5 of the SUW’s 212 miles, though our journey clocked up 99 miles with 3669m ascent. The SUW took us … Continue reading
SUW8: Polskeoch to Sanquhar
10.7 miles 4h 47m ascent 368m; max elevation 451m, slopes of Cloud Hill Route: SUW Polskeoch to Sanquhar At the end of SUW7 we had left the SUW just after the Chalk Memorial Bothy taking the “Lorg Trail” through the … Continue reading