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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
Devil’s Beef Tub in drizzle: AW1
Bad weather was forecast but we were lucky in that we had drizzle rather than heavy rain. Unfortunately the wet ground and wet air uncovered footwear gore-tex failure for David and myself. This was our first go at the Annandale … Continue reading
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Shalloch on Minnoch
This outing began with a long drive since I had to come at the hill from either the north or west and both the Galloway forest park and Loch Doon meant there were no direct roads. I thought the quickest … Continue reading
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Tagged Corbetts, Donalds
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Rhinns of Kells
The forest tracks in this estate all have road names and as usual many are not shown on the OS map. There is a map at the car park with the named roads on but I had not paid quite … Continue reading
Mabie – wild cyclists
Our last walk before the big one. I am beginning to believe I could walk this path with my eyes closed, but I’d probably twist an ankle trying it. We need to find an alternative default walk and leave Mabie … Continue reading
Downhill from Black Hill
From Dunreggan car park, we set off full of energy, carrying our supplies across the bridge to Moniaive, in the morning sunshine. Then through the town we walk past a choclatier, several public houses, restaurants, the market cross, bistros and … Continue reading
Perfidious Forecasters
20.45 miles 6h 20m 380m ascent Pushing the miles in preparation for the big day we walked from Crocketford up to Speddoch and back via Shawhead. The weather forecast was dry with a possibility of a light shower and I … Continue reading
Turner’s Monument and Glenkiln Cross
The plan was to climb up to Turner’s Monument on Bennan Hill and I am pleased I chose to go from the south rather than east. I parked at the copse just past the pink farm (Glen Farm) and climbed … Continue reading
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Crocketford Round
Beasts! Red squirrels, red kites, foxes, deer, rabbits, greylag geese, lambs, calfs, pheasants, sculptures, topiary and views. 16.5 miles in a figure of eight. Cold enough for hats some of the time but thankfully dry. We began at Crocketford, initially … Continue reading