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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
Hearts & Heroes
The big day! 29 miles of the Southern Upland Way, 10 hours, 1100m ascent An early start since the event kicked off at 7am. David had stayed overnight in a tent, as had Elaine’s sister. When the rest of us … Continue reading
Dumfries to Lochfoot
16 miles 4 hours 45 mins Total ascent 226m Pleasant walk with lots of lambs and calves, mounted damsels in (minimal) distress and even an orange-tipped butterfly. (Another Margaret walk) The cycle track from near the A701/A75 junction then … Continue reading
East Lodge to Mabie
20.1 miles 6 hours 10 mins Max elevation 326m total ascent 700m Fantastic walk. I’ve broken the 20 mile barrier! Shame there wasn’t enough milk for hot chocolate. The forestry have tracks from East Lodge, between Mainsriddle and … Continue reading
Margaret’s Mabie Special
18.2 miles 5 hours 40 mins Max elevation 192m but total ascent 642m A good walk at what I would regard as a blistering pace. I was certainly flagging at the end and if we had gone further … Continue reading
Traquair to Gala
12.7 miles 4 hours 50 mins 523 m Three miles of ascent at the beginning really does take it out of you, but there are many miles of downhill to recover. The hill from Yair then gets you at … Continue reading
Tibbie Shiels
18.3 miles time 6h 30m Well that wasn’t easy. See the elevation to see why. Good walk though. At least the second, still to be done, half has a better profile. I’m sorry Mike but I (Elaine) refuse … Continue reading
Older Walks
Mabie 8 February 7.7 miles elevation 188m time 2h 15m Mabie 14 February 7.2 miles elevation 188m time 2h Mabie 21 February 8.5 miles elevation 216m time 2h 30m This did seem a more arduous … Continue reading