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- 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)
- The Comedy Way: 3 – bring me sunshine
- The Comedy Way: 2 – the two chimneys
- The Comedy Way: 1 – another nice mess
- Butterhole Hill: Another of Monica’s neighbours
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Tag Archives: Donalds
I can see clearly now (below 600m): Cairnsmore of Fleet
8.1 miles 4h 24m ascent 688m Tourist Route It is a few years since I climbed Cairnsmore from the SW, and I am pretty sure there was a car park back then. I recall a couple of old codgers, probably not … Continue reading
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Squelch, squelch: onomatopoeia by the Pot of Ae
9.0 miles 5h 29m 552m ascent max elevation (Queensberry) 697m Route: Kinnelhead-Blairmark-Harestanes Heights-Mount Glass-Pot of Ae-Lochanhead A gentle stroll up Queensberry from the NE, taking in Harestane Heights (picture above). The forecast said that any rain would clear up … Continue reading
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SUW12: Across the watershed
11 miles 5h 58min 881m ascent; max elevation 637m Croft Head This section took us from D&G into the Borders and over the watershed from rivers flowing to the Irish Sea to those heading for the North Sea. We … Continue reading
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SUW10: The roller-coaster section
11.1 miles 676m ascent 5h 17m; max elevation 725m Lowther Hill Route: SUW Wanlockhead to Daer Reservoir (From the highest village in Scotland, along the Lowther roller-coaster, to the headwaters of the River Clyde.) Another rainy day on … Continue reading
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The Donalds
A little history Percy Donald, wrote “The two-thousand feet tops of the Scottish lowland uplands” for the journal of the Scottish Mountaineering Club in 1935, listing 133 tops and 15 humps in southern Scotland. He had decided to visit all … Continue reading
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Birks Hill
7.9 miles 3h 21m ascent 557m Birks Hill, Birkscairn Hill, Glensheil Banks “And birks saw I three or four, Wi’ grey moss bearded owre,– The last that are left o’ the birken shaw, Whar mony a simmer e’en Fond lovers … Continue reading
The Buckdass of Cairnbaber
6.5 miles 564m 4h 33m Cairngarroch, Cairnbaber, Millfore, Millfore SW top Another mopping up outing, this time for Millfore’s southwest top that I had gazed upon but had not previously visited. I parked by the road just after the T-junction … Continue reading
White Coomb from Talla
9.7 miles 5h 25m ascent 681m Carlavin Hill-Molls Cleuch Dod-Firthhope Rig-White Coomb-Great Hill I could say that I had previously approached White Coomb from Carrifran Gans and from the Grey Mare’s Tail, wanted to try this way, … Continue reading