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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: Wee Hills
Cairn Edward Hill
6.4 miles 3h 50m ascent 357m Cairn Edward Hill and Bennan Hill viewpoints Previous to the introduction of roads or railways into the Stewartry, these moors formed part of the wild and unfrequented tracks of Galloway, and were the haunts of … Continue reading
Mochrum Fell in the mist
10.4 miles 4h 5m 364m ascent Falbae Moor to Mochrum Fell Mochrum, the ridge of the swine, makes three appearances in D&G. There are two Mochrum Fells (317m, 197m) and a Mochrum Hill (270m). This is the Marilyn, Mochrum Fell … Continue reading
Lotus Hill with bins
Binoculars. dim. bins; Device worn around neck to ensure no birds are seen. The is the same 4.75 mile route as described in Three Spaniels on Lotus Hill from February. I sit typing this with Eddie curled up next to … Continue reading
Bainloch Hill
2.2 miles 1h 48m ascent 219m (Bainloch Hill 287m) Bainloch Hill is said to take its name from bàin loch, white loch, but I don’t find that convincing. There is a White Loch a couple of miles away below Barcloy … Continue reading
Assembling on Pibble Hill
2.7 miles 1h 42m 230m ascent Bad weather was forecast with very low cloud so I headed for Pibble Hill, a wee 383m Marilyn near the Clints of Dromore. Most descriptions of walks up this hill come from the Corse … Continue reading
The Glen of the Wildcat
3.3 miles 2h 24m ascent 241m Back Hill of Orchars-Altiwhat-Fell of Fleet A burn, labelled Altiwhat on older OS maps, empties into northern apex of Loch Fleet, the Loch itself becoming the source of Little Water of Fleet. The burn … Continue reading
Three Spaniels on Lotus Hill
4.8 miles 2h 40m 311m ascent Forestry tracks, paths (stony, mossy, boggy), pine-needle covered forest walks, heathery moorland, fallen trees, felled trees, distant gunshots, rocky outcrops, erratics, collapsed dykes, burns, bridged and unbridged, forest (conifer, deciduous, felled and replanted), ad … Continue reading
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Steygail: scaling the sleeping dog
4.7 miles 2h 24m ascent 496m Route: Up on Dalveen Rig, down the western ridge. Highest point Steygail 573m Steygail means Steep Gable and it stands guarding the Dalveen Pass, a massive steep sided hulk that doesn’t lend itself to … Continue reading