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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
Criffel
6.25 miles 3h 45m ascent 613m The Waterloo Monument and Criffel via the Pultarson Burn We parked in a small car park at Mid Glen, about half a mile from New Abbey. The Glen Burn runs by the car park … Continue reading
Bengairn – Screel’s forgotten twin
4.5 miles 2h 5min Ascent 324m Bengairn We parked at the Bengairn Hill sign (Do not start fires), on the track from the A711 to Mains of Collin, just above Bengairn Loch. A farm track climbs gently through the … Continue reading
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Moorbrock – The Polifferie Round
9.6 miles 4h 14min ascent 686m Moorbrock Hill-Keoch Rig-Mid Hill of Glenhead-Dodd Hill The walk starts at the entrance to Moorbrock Estate about a third of a mile beyond Craigengillan bridge. The gates were locked but there … Continue reading
Fair Weather Walker
My hill-bagging compulsion has me on edge; just one hill to go to have completed the Corbetts, Grahams, and Donalds of Region 27/D&G. The walk was all planned. I have walked in rain, sleet, fog and snow, but…. Today was … Continue reading
Cairnsmore of Fleet from Dromore
11.8 miles 5h 28 mins 933m ascent Cullendoch-Door of Cairnsmore-Knee of Cairnsmore-Cairnsmore of Fleet-Meikle Mulltaggart-Craigronald-Loch Garroch Cairnsmore of Fleet’s Donald tops, the Knee of Cairnsmore and Meikle Mulltaggart were my main targets for the day. They could be had via … Continue reading
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Coran of Portmark
12.3 miles 6h 25m 719m ascent Loch Doon-Coran of Portmark-Bow-Knockower-Black Craig-Loch Doon The primary aim of this walk was to climb Coran of Portmark, since previous visits to the Rhinns of Kells had come off over Cairnsgarroch, leaving Bow, the … Continue reading
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The Blackcraig
9.8 miles 5h 44m 900m ascent Blackcraig-Blacklorg-Meikledodd-Alwhat-Cannock Hill-Craigbraneoch A beautiful day so I set off for the Afton hills. I parked the car on the Afton road before Craigdarroch Farm and got kitted out under the watchful eyes of … Continue reading
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Kirriereoch
6.8 miles 3h 40m ascent 605m Tarfessock-Kirriereoch Kirriereoch and Tarfessock had been on my to-do list for a while. Unfortunately my research suggested there was no easy way up these two hills. The walk from Slaethornrig looked … Continue reading