{"id":479,"date":"2009-12-06T20:59:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T20:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/?p=479"},"modified":"2011-09-01T20:01:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T19:01:09","slug":"cairnkinna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/dumfries-galloway\/cairnkinna\/","title":{"rendered":"Cairnkinna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/?attachment_id=480\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-480\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-480\" title=\"Chanlock Rig with Craigdasher behind it, from Woodend Craig.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC03607merge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC03607merge.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC03607merge-150x78.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC03607merge-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>This walk started with blue sky and became gradually more overcast, but I managed to be off the hill before the heavens fully opened. The route was easy enough to follow. Firstly up the path towards Woodend Farmhouse, then up onto Woodend Craig. I stopped just a little further up from where this picture was taken to have a drink of water and it was so windy that my rucksack was blown away (I did catch it though).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1045\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Mike-takes-a-dive-on-Cairnkinna.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1045\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1045\" title=\"Mike takes a dive on Cairnkinna\" src=\"http:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Mike-takes-a-dive-on-Cairnkinna-150x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Mike-takes-a-dive-on-Cairnkinna-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Mike-takes-a-dive-on-Cairnkinna-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Mike-takes-a-dive-on-Cairnkinna.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1045\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike takes a dive on Cairnkinna<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There were several tracks to follow, some probably sheep tracks but also some vehicle tracks. None seemed to go all the way and I would lose tracks for a while only to come accross others after a few minutes. The views of Scaur valley were pretty impressive.<\/p>\n<p>There is a massive cairn at the summit of Cairnkinna. I decided to use the camera&#8217;s self timer to get a shot of myself at the cairn, but tripped just as the shutter fired.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1046\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Earthworkfort-with-Merkland-Hill-from-Mote-Hill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1046\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1046\" title=\"Earthwork:fort with Merkland Hill, from Mote Hill\" src=\"http:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Earthworkfort-with-Merkland-Hill-from-Mote-Hill-150x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Earthworkfort-with-Merkland-Hill-from-Mote-Hill-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Earthworkfort-with-Merkland-Hill-from-Mote-Hill-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Earthworkfort-with-Merkland-Hill-from-Mote-Hill.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1046\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthwork:fort with Merkland Hill, from Mote Hill<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There is a fence to follow down over Mote Hill heading towards the remains of an earthwork at Druidhill Burn. There were also the remains of sheep, one whole skeleton and various scattered bones. Once off the hill there is a farm track back to the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This walk started with blue sky and became gradually more overcast, but I managed to be off the hill before the heavens fully opened. The route was easy enough to follow. Firstly up the path towards Woodend Farmhouse, then up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/dumfries-galloway\/cairnkinna\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumfries-galloway","tag-wee-hills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}