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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
Cairnkinna
This walk started with blue sky and became gradually more overcast, but I managed to be off the hill before the heavens fully opened. The route was easy enough to follow. Firstly up the path towards Woodend Farmhouse, then up … Continue reading
Bishop Forest Hill
The day started at Mabie forest car park. No one else had turned up. Then my phone rang. Everyone else was at Ae forest. Chinese whispers had corrupted my message. It was too late to join them at Ae so … Continue reading
Cairnsmore of Carsphairn
This was a difficult walk because the errant border terrier Leo chose to do a runner and could not be found. As you will see from the photos, it was a beautiful day for walking. The picture above is the … Continue reading
Mabie Forest
7.2 miles, total ascent 274m about 2.5 hours This was the walk from Mabie down to Trostan, along to Lotus Hill and back up into Mabie. Nice weather, randy dogs, and hot drinks at the end. What more can … Continue reading
Clatteringshaws
A walk around the Clatteringshaws cycle path. It was sunny most of the way round but clouded over and started to rain when we stopped for lunch. At least we were treated to some rainbows. 13.7 miles elevation 227m … Continue reading
Striding Arches
Three separate walks in June and July. First walk 27th June was the shortest, to the arch on Colt hill. It’s quite a bumpy drive up from Moniaive to the the parking spot at Cairnhead and I arrived to find … Continue reading
Glenmidge
Strange that such a pleasant walk exists so close to home. Though I’m not sure I could find where we went on a map. From memory the route goes from Glenmidge, down towards Hallidayhill but taking a right fork up … Continue reading
Loch Trool Circuit
A 5 miler around Loch Trool on a sunny but cool day. The dogs had trouble with some of the wooden bridges and could not quite grasp the use of a kissing gate. Lynn refused to push Bruce’s Stone, presumably … Continue reading