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Recent Walks
- Butterhole Hill: Another of Monica’s neighbours
- The Source of the Nith: Recce No.1
- Great Trossachs Path: 4 – Ancient woodland, Roman forts and saintly mounds
- Great Trossachs Path: 3 – Twa Brigs, Forestry and Goats
- Great Trossachs Path: 1 – Glen Arklet, the Garrison and Inversnaid Falls
- Ayrshire Coastal Path: 6 – Sandblown beaches, a Brig o’ Doon and Ayr’s Esplanade
- Ayrshire Coastal Path: 5 – castles, cephalopods and country parks
- Ayrshire Coastal Path: 4 – beaches, burns and bull pens
- Ayrshire Coastal Path: 3 – a very British picnic
- Ayrshire Coastal Path: 2 – beaches, barriers and braying bovines
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Tag Archives: Spring
SUW16: The Roman Road
15 miles 5h 45m 682m ascent; max elevation 305m on Woodheads Hill Route: SUW Gala to Lauder What more could we ask for? The Southern Upland Way in sunshine, with riverside and farmland walks, plenty of wild flowers, hawthorn and … Continue reading
Southern Upland Way: the Middle Marches
The central section of the SUW, from the River Nith at Sanquhar to the River Tweed at Yair Bridge is 70.4 of the SUW’s 212 miles, though our journey clocked up 76.5 miles with 4403m ascent. This took us from … Continue reading
Posted in Borders, Dumfries & Galloway, Lanarkshire
Tagged Annandale Way, Grahams, Paths, Ruins, Spring, SUW, Wee Hills, Winter
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Darnaw’s Dragonfly Monument
5.8 miles 4h 30m ascent 340m Route: Quarry SE of Clatteringshaws, Low Craignell, Craignell, Darnaw, Dragonfly Monument Then we set off again over two very desolate hills that have for names, as Sammle told me, Craignell and Darnaw. We were high up on them and keeping … Continue reading
SUW14: The Two Towers
12.4 miles 607m ascent 5h 34m; max elevation 487m on Middle Rig Route: SUW Tibbie Shiels to Traquair Sunshine at last. Though we started with a grey sky, the sun eventually showed its face and gave us a great day. … Continue reading
SUW13: the footsteps of poets
11 miles 523m ascent 4h 57m; max elevation 466m on Pikestone Rig Route: SUW Potburn to St Mary’s Loch Springtime on the Southern Upland Way. I took a T-shirt along in case it was warm and sunny when … Continue reading
Beninner by the bridges
9.3 miles 4h 49m ascent 770m Black Shoulder-Beninner-Cairnsmore of Carsphairn There is plenty of parking space in the lay-by across the road from the Green Well of Scotland. A new information sign just inside the first gate, has … Continue reading
Posted in Dumfries & Galloway
Tagged Corbetts, Donalds, Spring
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Ellers Cleuch Round
5.3 miles 2h 53min ascent 496m Strawberry Hill-Garelet Dod-Ellers Cleuch Rig-Din Law A bad weather day: drow ‘n’ smirr, with strong winds. I drove past the Menzion stones on the way in and parked at end of Fruid reservoir. … Continue reading
The Garden Path: Windy Gyle and the Cheviot
13.9 miles 5h 47m 780m ascent Windy Gyle-The Cheviot-Auchope Cairn My final Donald, hence my grin in the photograph above. Though this was my longest drive for a Donald-bagging outing, in time if not miles, we still found … Continue reading