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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 Raiders: worts and all
8.88 miles 4h 28m ascent 217mMossdale to Merrick (part 4) Craigencallie to the Axe Head Stane Part 5 of our Raiders outings took us from Craigencallie to the Axe Head Stane (and back). Had car sharing been allowed this section … Continue reading
The Other Side of the Raiders Road
9.67 miles 4h 25m (no breaks!) ascent 242m midges, milkwort, scent of pine, the ford, red pine, forestry in all stages, deep sphagnum, bluebells in the open, trees standing, felled, fallen, fallen and cut, eared? willow aplenty, rain but warm, … Continue reading
The Raiders: Clatteringshaws to Craigencallie
10.67 miles 5h 5mins ascent 243mMossdale to Merrick (part 3) In the footsteps of Crockett’s Raiders, from the Raiders Road to Craigencallie, Spring’s sunshine practising for Summer, the heather and bracken a little tardy, and the dogs keen for an … Continue reading
Raiders Road: Mossdale to the Otter Pool
11.4 miles 5h 9m ascent 221mMossdale to Merrick (part 1) Mossdale to the Otterpool by the old railway to Stroan loch then the Raiders Road In Samuel Crockett’s book The Raiders his hero tracks a band of reivers and cattle … Continue reading
Raider’s Road: Clatteringshaws to the Otter Pool
8.03 miles 4h 1m ascent 293mMossdale to Merrick (part 2) Spring. A cuckoo’s call in the calm air and cuckoo flowers in the verge. Sunshine that didn’t call for hats or sunscreen, and warmed but didn’t overwhelm. Coltsfoot and wood … Continue reading
Frae the big brig tae the auld halt
10.12 miles 5h 2 m 178m ascent Big Water of Fleet Viaduct-Skerrow Halt The drive to the viaduct was a little slower than expected because we came to a “temporary obstruction, 15 minute delay” sign. I turned off the ignition, … Continue reading
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Skerrow Halt (yet) Again
9.65 miles 4h 15m 161m ascent Stroan Loch-Skerrow Halt-Little Water of Fleet-and back It’s a year since I blogged a walk. The last few months can be put down to lockdown, and the last couple of weeks due to a … Continue reading
Locked-in
[Post-walk shennanigans] I started the car, reversed out and headed home, my mind relaxing into auto-pilot mode. I passed a few walkers. We waved and shared smiles. In a film this would have been accompanied with relaxing music, soft focus … Continue reading