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Recent Walks
- A Morning in Markudjik: Shaken and Perturbed
- Hadrian’s Coastal Route 8: Hudson Bay to the Solway
- Hadrian’s Coastal Route 7: Paths long neglected and meadows unmown
- Hadrian’s Coastal Route 6: Great Expectations
- Hadrian’s Coastal Route 5: What spires, what blooms are those?
- Hadrian’s Coastal Route 4: Promenades and Sculptures
- Hadrian’s Coastal Route 3: The Iron Coast
- Hadrian’s Coastal Route 2: Country roads and Clifftops
- Hadrian’s Coastal Route 1: Where the dirt is clean
- Freezing winds on Great Sca Fell
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Skerrow Halt Again
8.4 miles 3h 52 min ascent 93m Stroan Loch to a little way past Skerrow Halt, and back We had been heavy rain in the previous days so my planned walk, which would have included a stroll through boggy terrain, was … Continue reading
Trusty’s Hill
3.75 miles 1h 50m ascent 114m Gatehouse of Fleet- Trusty’s Hill-Rutherford Monument-Anwoth Drust’s Hill, wet walk, pictish carvings, monument 1 and 2, old kirk [osmap gpx=”http://www.screel.co.uk/walks/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/RK_gpx-_2017-05-21_1016.gpx”]
Romans and Reivers: 3 – through the cave of sorrows
13 miles 5h 33m 631m ascent Bellshaw Pool-Garwaldwaterfoot This, our third Romans and Reivers walk, took us from Moffat Dale to Eskdale, passing through the valleys of Wamphray Water, Dryfe Water, and Garwald Water, and past the … Continue reading
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Dun Garbh
1 mile 50mins Dungarry Fort This is an 8th century fort, or the remains of one at least, sitting on a small hill in a valley beside Bengairn. The long single track road/track from Auchencairn doesn’t have much in the … Continue reading
Gawin Moor: revisited
8.8 miles 3h 50m ascent 245m Auchencairn Forest Last week I went to Auchencairn Forest to look for some features marked on the OS map. This week I was back in search of two more cairns in the forest at … Continue reading
The Deil’s Dike and Auchencairn’s Cairns
9.8 miles 4h 35m 345m ascent Great Hill-White Hill-Auchencairn Height Gawin Moor Cairn, White Hill Cairn, Mid Cairn, Royach Cairn, Auchencairn Height Cairn This walk starts at Loch Ettrick, following forestry tracks to Great Hill, White Hill, Auchencairn Height and … Continue reading
Στην Κνωσό μέσω Ηρακλείου: A Minoan Morning
Distance: Not much actual walking. Climb: Virtually none. Duration: Left after breakfast, back for lunch. Knossos by bus A journey rather than a walk, and certainly not an epic journey. As I walked from the hotel I left the unreal … Continue reading
Glentrool, Black Linn and the three Waters
8 miles 4h 30m ascent 185m Black Linn-Minniwick Woods-Bargrennan-Braes of Barmore-Cree Woods Our walk began at Stroan Bridge where the Water of Minnoch cascades through a rocky gorge. The Glentrool visitor centre here once nestled among tall conifers but the forest … Continue reading
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