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Recent Walks
- Yeork-sher: wet boots, mired tyres and abandoned walks
- Mull of Galloway Trail: 5 – moorland, laight, and stane
- Mull of Galloway Trail: 4 – Swans, Gorse and missed turns
- Mull of Galloway Trail: 3 – oh ffs! off piste again
- Mull of Galloway Trail: 2 – trudging over shingle and wading through bracken
- The Mull of Galloway Trail: 1 – overgrown, elusive and unfrequented
- Eden Way: 12 – Water Cut, Ure Force and Ruswarp
- Loch Katrine
- Silver Jubilee Road
- Barlay Hill: another Monica
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Tag Archives: Corbetts
Blackhope Round
9.8 miles 5h 9min ascent 970m Saddle Yoke-Hartfell Rig-Hart Fell-Falcon Craig-Swatte Fell-Nether Coomb Craig The Moffat hills are whalebacks, which from a distance look like drumlins that have grown into giants. This walk shows another terrain, the steep … Continue reading
Brass Monkeys on Hart Fell
7.2 miles 685m ascent 3h 37m Blue skies….Hart Fell beckoned. The old Edinburgh road was passable and we parked at the community hut near Newton. Once past the first kissing gate we found what was in store for us; 6 … Continue reading
The Cobbler
7.53 miles 919m ascent 4h 39m The weather on the way up to to Beinglas was dreadful with plenty of standing water on the roads. Each time we drove through one of these monster puddles the windscreen was drenched like … Continue reading
The Rhinns of Hell
15.9 miles 1332m ascent 8h 40m Well, what can I say? We met, fed, bursting with energy, wagging tails (those that had them), and ready for a day forecast with sunshine, to feast our eyes on the views from the … Continue reading
Seeking the Grey Man
9.9 miles 848m ascent 5h 41m It was excellent walking weather; dry, cool, blue sky and occasional clouds. Indeed the sunshine was more than we expected judging by our red faces by the afternoon. We set off along the tourist … Continue reading
The Roaring Linn
6.2 miles 730m ascent 3h 27m I wasn’t sure where to walk this weekend. I had originally planned to visit Loch Enoch and Craignaw, but didn’t fancy doing it in the rain, so Plan B was Hart Fell (shorter option). … Continue reading
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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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