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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
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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Woodhead Hill – an itch scratched
4.16 miles 1h 51m ascent 262m Woodhead Hill is my closest Marylin. I see it most days. That its name does not have a tick next to it has been an irritation for some time. This was the last weekend of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Wee Hills, Winter
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See Morris Hill
2.26 miles 50 mins 162 m ascent A very short walk and an easy route. I started from the foot of the track to Riddingshill and followed the road up until I was just below the giant aerial. From there … Continue reading
The Rig of the Jarkness
9.1 miles 5h 55m ascent 642m Loch Trool-Gairland Glen-Rig of the Jarkness-Craiglee-Glenhead Best done during a hose-pipe ban. I started with a stroll up to Bruce’s Stone overlooking the loch. From there I could see the white water of … Continue reading
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Tagged 7stanes, SUW, Wee Hills
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Kirkconnell Flow: the lost patrol
3.6 miles 1h 42min 60m ascent Kirkconnell Flow National Nature Reserve Today there was a important conjunction of environmental and personal events, heavy rain and laziness, which led me to choose an easier walk in place of that originally planned. … Continue reading
Lotus Hill
3.75 miles 1hr 54min ascent 262m A nice short walk, but best done during a drought. There was a deer standing in the car park when I arrived, as there was the last time I parked there. I had … Continue reading
Across the Gameshope Burn
10 miles 5h 45min ascent 990m Nickies Knowe-Lochcraig Head-Molls Cleuch Dod-Garelet Dod-Erie Hill-Garelet Hill This walk started with a choice: to walk from Talla Linnfoots to the Megget Stone at the beginning of the walk (park at Talla Linnfoots) or … Continue reading