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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: SUW
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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Law, Shank, Hill, Fell, Craig and Pen
9.6 miles 4h 43m 823m ascent The Ettrick Horseshoe: Bodesbeck Law, White Shank, Smidhope Hill, Capel Fell, Wind Fell, Hopetoun Craig, Ettrick Pen. Plan B (version 3). The original plan was the Awful Hand Ridge as a linear walk … Continue reading
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Lowthers in White and Green
7.31 miles 2h 45m 531m ascent Wanlockhead nestled in the green-brown mist covered hills smothered in drizzle. We swaddled ourselves in waterproofs, spied the southern upland way sign and set off up the track. The rain gradually changed to sleet … Continue reading
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Crooked Road and Rowan Tree: AW2.2
8.3 miles 2h 30min 297m ascent Good weather Waiting at Lochthorn the weather was beautiful, blue sky and distinct shadows. But as we headed north in convoy the sky became greyer and looked like rain. I began to think I … Continue reading
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Moffat to St Ann’s: The Drenching part 2 (AW2)
Rain, heavy rain, rain, heavy rain, drizzle, rain, mizzle, rain, drizzle. Jupiter Pluvius awoke and practised his art. The forecast was an inch of rain. Could we rise to this challenge? Should we? Unfortunately some form of chip-related affliction had … Continue reading
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Hearts and Heroes 2010
The sassenachs were fed freshly caught haggis and shortbread by the Wylies at the pre-walk team meeting. Then from what I can gather were tortured by electronic beeping to prevent a good night’s sleep. An early morning start, 4.30am for … Continue reading
Downhill from Black Hill
From Dunreggan car park, we set off full of energy, carrying our supplies across the bridge to Moniaive, in the morning sunshine. Then through the town we walk past a choclatier, several public houses, restaurants, the market cross, bistros and … Continue reading
Striding Arches
Three separate walks in June and July. First walk 27th June was the shortest, to the arch on Colt hill. It’s quite a bumpy drive up from Moniaive to the the parking spot at Cairnhead and I arrived to find … Continue reading