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Recent Walks
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- 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
- Torr Point and Red Haven in 24 degrees
- O’er Burnswark Hill, we cheerily roam’d
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Category Archives: Dumfries & Galloway
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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Tagged Paths, Wee Hills
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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
Posted in Ayrshire, Borders, Donalds, Dumfries & Galloway, Far away, Lanarkshire
Tagged Corbetts, Donalds, Grahams
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The Buckdass of Cairnbaber
6.5 miles 564m 4h 33m Cairngarroch, Cairnbaber, Millfore, Millfore SW top Another mopping up outing, this time for Millfore’s southwest top that I had gazed upon but had not previously visited. I parked by the road just after the T-junction … Continue reading
Lotus Hill
My last ascent of Lotus Hill was opportunistic, and so was this. I had intended taking the dogs along the forest track but could not ignore the siren call of the hill. Bluebells in profusion and new growths of fern carpeted … Continue reading
Beninner by the bridges
9.3 miles 4h 49m ascent 770m Black Shoulder-Beninner-Cairnsmore of Carsphairn There is plenty of parking space in the lay-by across the road from the Green Well of Scotland. A new information sign just inside the first gate, has … Continue reading
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Tagged Corbetts, Donalds, Spring
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Wet and Dry: Scaw’d Law and Glenleith Fell
7.53 miles 3h 12m ascent 552m Glenleith Fell-Scaw’d Law-Durisdeer Rig With a forecast of upland gales, new walk specifications came into play: not too far from home; no walking across steep sections where being blown over would be dangerous; a … Continue reading
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The Louther Hills
9.6 miles 4h 52m ascent 703m Comb head-Cold Moss-Lowther-Green Lowther-Peden Head-Dungrain Law I like to look into the origins of the names of the places I visit but I haven’t been impressed by suggestions that Lowther takes its name from … Continue reading
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Tagged Donalds, Grahams, Spring, SUW
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Crunching and Crackling over Cauldcleuch Head
7.1 miles 4h 32m ascent 521m Stob Fell-Pennygant Hill-Cauldcleuch Head-Millstone Edge-Tudhope Hill There is a plantation of larch and spruce on the road above Billhope with space to park a car or two at its gate. From there, in bright … Continue reading
Posted in Borders, Dumfries & Galloway
Tagged Donalds, Grahams, Winter
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