Tag Archives: Paths

SUW5: The Water of Trool to the Black Burn

October 6, 2013

15.23 miles  6h 5m  ascent 794m; max elevation 314m slopes of Shield Rig Route: SUW Caldons to Knockmulloch This was our fifth section of the SUW challenge, and would take us past the 25% mileage mark (indeed, up to 30%). … Continue reading →

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SUW4: Tannylaggie to Trool

September 29, 2013

12.5 miles  5h 50m  263m ascent; max elevation 184m Ochiltree Hill   Route: SUW Tannylaggie Bridge to Caldons We were treated to a beautiful Autumn day, with sunshine to shame a summer’s day, reds and yellows emerging from the greenery … Continue reading →

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SUW3: Across the Purgatory Burn

September 21, 2013

11.8 miles  5h 47m  ascent 365m,  max elevation Craigairie Fell 320m Route: SUW, Dranigower to Tannylaggie A warm damp day, with neither rain nor drizzle, but dampness precipitating directly from the air. Though humid doesn’t seem a word one would use for … Continue reading →

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SUW2: Ultreia

September 1, 2013

SUW 2 Ultreia!: the write up will be a bit delayed but here’s some info to keep you going. 9.9 miles (9.0 miles of SUW), 4h 45m (a little slower than planned), 292m ascent, max elevation Caves of Kilhern 145m, 1,133 … Continue reading →

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Craiglee and the Wee Hills

July 27, 2013

4.8 miles  3h 30m  ascent 366m Route: Wee Hill of Craigmullach-Craiglee-Mulluss The Range of hills called the Awful Hand can be seen, by those of elastic imagination, as a hand reaching onto the land from the depths of the earth. … Continue reading →

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Ravens and Red Kites: Well Hill from Durisdeer

July 20, 2013

5.2 miles  2h 46m ascent 536m Durisdeer-Black Hill-Turn Hill-Well Hill-Well Path I have decided to award some hills “Honorary Donald” status for topographical merit. Well Hill is the first Honorary Donald. To be honest this is aesthetic rather than objective, … Continue reading →

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There’s gold in them there hills

June 24, 2012

8.6 miles   3h 50m   Ascent 604m Wanlockhead-Black Hill-Green Hill-Stood Hill-Willowgrain-Cogshead-Glengaber Hill Wanlockhead sits high in the Lowther Hills. It is the highest village in Britain and has a pub that claims to be the highest in Scotland. The … Continue reading →

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Last of the Ettrick Donalds

February 25, 2012

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 →

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