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Recent Walks
- The Flowers of the Forest: Flodden Field
- Bamburgh: royal castle, aviation museum and a sycamore gap
- Lindisfarne
- A wee horseshoe from Langholm
- Torr Point and Red Haven in 24 degrees
- 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)
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Tag Archives: Paths
Sanquhar and the SUW
7.4 miles 3h 288m ascent Along the SUW west from Sanquhar A few more miles of SUW. I decided to start from Sanquhar and walk out along the SUW far enough to look down the Scaur valley then head … Continue reading
Mystery above the Laggan’s Loch
7.25 miles 2h 15m ascent 252m Craigencallie, Loch Dee, White Laggan and the Glentrool Giant Axe Head I have both driven and walked the road from Clatteringshaws past Craigencallie, but have never actually spotted Craigencallie House, where I planned to … Continue reading
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The Gowans Fyn
4.6 miles 1h 54m 164m ascent Newcastleton, 7 stanes Border Stane A nice easy walk, starting at the 7-stanes Trailhead car park about a mile and half east of Newcastleton. My schoolboy error was to take a … Continue reading
Heart, Mote and Slab
6.4 miles 1h 55m 174m ascent This was a brief stroll through Dalbeattie Forest in pleasant weather. We had previously walked the Dalbeattie to Colvend path (once in rain, once in sunshine) but this time started at the … Continue reading
Deep in the forest
8.5 miles 2h 20min 320m ascent Ae Forest in search of the 7 Stanes. The weather was not the thundery heavy rain forecast, just a persistent drizzle (smirr). The route took us from the main car-park along a track … Continue reading
Galloway Wild Art
This is a repeat of the northern section of the Black Loch and the Eye walk, but this time in sunshine rather than rain. We went up the track from the Queen’s Way to the eastern end of Black Loch … Continue reading
Mabie by the uphill path
6.3 miles 1h 55m 340m ascent A relatively short walk but with quite a bit of ascent for a Mabie stroll. Our usual route has about 100m less of ascent and most of that is concentrated in the … Continue reading
Skerrow Halt
10.1 miles 3h 3min 285m ascent Stroan Loch-Airie-Loch Skerrow-Auchencloy-Barney Water-Raider’s Road-Stroan Loch. The forecast was a cloud base at 250m, so I decided to stick to a low level walk. As it turned out … Continue reading