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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
SUW5: The Water of Trool to the Black Burn
15.23 miles 6h 5m ascent 794m; max elevation 314m slopes of Shield Rig Route: SUW Caldons to Knockmulloch This was our fifth section of the SUW challenge, and would take us past the 25% mileage mark (indeed, up to 30%). … Continue reading
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SUW4: Tannylaggie to Trool
12.5 miles 5h 50m 263m ascent; max elevation 184m Ochiltree Hill Route: SUW Tannylaggie Bridge to Caldons We were treated to a beautiful Autumn day, with sunshine to shame a summer’s day, reds and yellows emerging from the greenery … Continue reading
SUW3: Across the Purgatory Burn
11.8 miles 5h 47m ascent 365m, max elevation Craigairie Fell 320m Route: SUW, Dranigower to Tannylaggie A warm damp day, with neither rain nor drizzle, but dampness precipitating directly from the air. Though humid doesn’t seem a word one would use for … Continue reading
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SUW2: Ultreia
SUW 2 Ultreia!: the write up will be a bit delayed but here’s some info to keep you going. 9.9 miles (9.0 miles of SUW), 4h 45m (a little slower than planned), 292m ascent, max elevation Caves of Kilhern 145m, 1,133 … Continue reading
Wells o’ the Rees
7.8 miles 4h 42min ascent 303m Route: Derry Farm-Craig Airie Fell-Craigmoddie This walk combined a visit to the Wells o’ the Rees and Linn’s Tomb with a recce of parking places for a future SUW leg. The sun was out … Continue reading
SUW1: Portpatrick to Castle Kennedy
14.7 miles 6h 15m ascent 432m; max elevation Mulloch Hill 164m Route: Portpatrick, Killantringan, Knockquhassen, Castle Kennedy Car no.1 was stashed by Castle Kennedy and we all piled into car no.2 for the run to Portpatrick where there was plenty … Continue reading
Ravens and Red Kites: Well Hill from Durisdeer
5.2 miles 2h 46m ascent 536m Durisdeer-Black Hill-Turn Hill-Well Hill-Well Path I have decided to award some hills “Honorary Donald” status for topographical merit. Well Hill is the first Honorary Donald. To be honest this is aesthetic rather than objective, … Continue reading
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The Donalds
A little history Percy Donald, wrote “The two-thousand feet tops of the Scottish lowland uplands” for the journal of the Scottish Mountaineering Club in 1935, listing 133 tops and 15 humps in southern Scotland. He had decided to visit all … Continue reading
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