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Recent Walks
- 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)
- The Comedy Way: 3 – bring me sunshine
- The Comedy Way: 2 – the two chimneys
- The Comedy Way: 1 – another nice mess
- Butterhole Hill: Another of Monica’s neighbours
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Tag Archives: Ruins
SUW9: Sanquhar to Wanlockhead
8.7 miles 3h 45m ascent 596m; max elevation 483m, slopes of Highmill Knowe Route: SUW Sanquhar to Wanlockhead, and detour to Black Loch A cold dry day with occasional sunshine and the odd glimpse of blue sky. This was a straightforward … Continue reading
SUW3: Across the Purgatory Burn
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
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
Wells o’ the Rees
7.8 miles 4h 42min ascent 303m Route: Derry Farm-Craig Airie Fell-Craigmoddie This walk combined a visit to the Wells o’ the Rees and Linn’s Tomb with a recce of parking places for a future SUW leg. The sun was out … Continue reading
Craiglee and the Wee Hills
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
There’s gold in them there hills
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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Criffel
6.25 miles 3h 45m ascent 613m The Waterloo Monument and Criffel via the Pultarson Burn We parked in a small car park at Mid Glen, about half a mile from New Abbey. The Glen Burn runs by the car park … Continue reading
Bengairn – Screel’s forgotten twin
4.5 miles 2h 5min Ascent 324m Bengairn We parked at the Bengairn Hill sign (Do not start fires), on the track from the A711 to Mains of Collin, just above Bengairn Loch. A farm track climbs gently through the … Continue reading
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