{"id":8932,"date":"2022-11-30T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/?p=8932"},"modified":"2022-12-03T20:02:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T20:02:47","slug":"craigend-hill-third-time-lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/dumfries-galloway\/craigend-hill-third-time-lucky\/","title":{"rendered":"Craigend Hill: third time lucky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2.54 miles 1h 46m ascent 126m<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A short walk, most of it on forestry roads, but a little taxing off piste. I had tried to follow the obsolete MTB track previously, but couldn’t manage it with the dogs. This time I intended to go up what would once have been the firebreak (dense bracken) running between Lochbank Hill (newly felled) and Craigend Hill (dense young woodland).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The firebreak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We actually had it easier than I had been expecting. The forestry vehicles had left a trail up the side of Lochbank, with a bit of climbing over fallen branches we got up just short of the col. Then a fallen section of wall let us into the bracken and up to the trees<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A wee bit of scrambling up the heather, using trees as handholds had us in a jungle of tangled vegetation. We were going uphill so it had to the right way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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wooden MTB track<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We came to a wooden section of the MTB track. I had to climb over it on the way up and crawl underneath on the way back. I had thought of following it on the way down, but soon ditched that idea as unworkable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The highest point of the hill is actually much closer to the MTB track than the OS map would have you think. I continued on towards where the spot height is marked but the ground was falling away quite quickly and I was clearly already at the top. Which is where older OS maps show it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Craigend Hill – the top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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