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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: Grahams
Last of the Ettrick Donalds
8.7 miles 4h 24m 842m ascent Selcoth-Croft Head-West Knowe-Loch Fell-Windfell Nick-some SUW One problem with the western Ettrick hills is access. Moffat Water is too wide to cross except over bridges and the Ettrick valley is a long drive. … Continue reading
Windy Standard in the snow
9.5 miles 4h 28m ascent 511m Afton-Jedburgh Knees-Windy Standard-Blackgrane-Millaneoch-Wedder Hill A walk in the snow. Windy Standard has eluded me on a previous walk which I abandoned in bad weather. As you can see from the picture, the … Continue reading
(Sans-)Bodesbeck Ridge
8.1 miles 4h 8min Ascent 629m Here I am at 2012 feet in 2012. Herman Law, Trowgrain Middle, Mid Rig, Andrewhinney Hill, Bell Craig, Mid Rig. The Bodesbeck ridge runs SW-NE beside Moffat water. The NW face which looms over … Continue reading
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Law, Shank, Hill, Fell, Craig and Pen
9.6 miles 4h 43m 823m ascent The Ettrick Horseshoe: Bodesbeck Law, White Shank, Smidhope Hill, Capel Fell, Wind Fell, Hopetoun Craig, Ettrick Pen. Plan B (version 3). The original plan was the Awful Hand Ridge as a linear walk … Continue reading
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Tagged Donalds, Grahams, SUW
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The Silver Flowe
6.4 miles 4h 31m 511m ascent Backhill of Bush, the Silver Flowe, Nick of the Dungeon, Dungeon Hill, the Devil’s Bowling Green and Craignaw. The forecast was for rain and low cloud but as I … Continue reading
Following the fence posts to Curleywee
6.1 miles 3h 38m 592 m ascent A round of the Minnigaff hills: Larg Hill, Lamachan Hill, Bennanbrack and Curleywee. After the many wet and cloudy weekends we were at last blessed with sun. I … Continue reading
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Mullwharchar
9.8 miles 4h 45m 680m ascent The remotest hill in Galloway? I’d been longing to climb Mullwharchar for a while, but the routes were off-putting. I didn’t fancy tramping up the Gairland Burn when it had been raining all week … Continue reading
Daer Again
6.4 miles 2h 45m 450m I started half way down Daer reservoir near a farmhouse and a small promontory named on the OS as the mound. There was no obvious parking space at Kirkhope Cleuch so I headed a little … Continue reading