River Ayr Way 3

Day 3 Stair – Ayr (12 miles) Unlike the previous night I had a comfortable nights sleep, I would imagine mainly due to the cloud cover keeping things fairly mild.  I could even go as far as saying that it was too warm in the tent – I was in fact sweating my nads off, [...]

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River Ayr Way 2

Day 2 Sorn(ish) – Stair (17 Miles) It hadn’t been the most comfortable night I’ve ever had in the tent, in fact, if I’m honest it was pretty damn cold, especially early in the morning before the sun had come up properly.  In an attempt to warm up, the sleeping bag was dispensed with and [...]

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River Ayr Way 1

Day 1 Glenbuck – Sorn(ish) (16 miles) With the good weather coming to an end (20 plus degrees in Scotland in March!?) I had a small window of opportunity to bag a short trail, and one that was relatively local to boot. The River Ayr Way had been on the radar for a while, the [...]

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Glen Finglas

Glen Finglas and the Mell An early start this morning in glorious sunshine to head up to the Trossachs for a day walk that turned out to be bang on 17 miles. The walk is a part linear, part circular – a walk past the Finglas Reservoir, to where the route splits, then a big [...]

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Tibbie Sheils and the Southern Upland Way

Tibbie Sheils and the Southern Upland Way   With the weather forecast being pretty reasonable, I decided to return to the Borders and walk a section of the Southern Upland Way (SUW), returning to Tibbie Shiels via a route that would in essence create a giant figure-of-eight loop. I had managed to extract myself from [...]

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7 Years of Walking, on camera

2004-2011 It doesn’t seem that long ago, the day I stepped off on the North Downs Way on my first ever days trailwalk.  Over seven years later and 10 trails completed, it seemed like  a good idea to revisit some of them with a potted photographic history.  Having had a guddle around on You Tube [...]

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Cort-ma Law

Cort-ma Law This year I have set myself the modest target of walking (or hiking) 500 miles, which works out at just under 10 miles a week.  In retrospect I am hoping to smash the target – but I have to get there first! Using my GPS and the fantastic Garmin Connect, I have found [...]

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New Years Day 2012 – Ben A’an

Ben A’an A leisurely start saw us leave the house at half past nine for the journey over the Campsie Fells up to the Trossachs.  It was quite difficult getting up though, after only four hours sleep!  Typically, at that time of the morning the roads were quiet, but as we reached the car-park at [...]

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Annandale Way – Day 3

Lochmaben – Hoddom Castle – 14 miles A shorter day was on the cards today so we decided to make  a quick getaway.  The rain had come overnight and the temperature had dropped considerably.  It was dry as we packed the tent, the dirty great big black cloud that was hovering nearby threatening to drop [...]

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Annandale Way – Day 1

Moffat – Devils Beeftub – Moffat (14 Miles) Our trail started on Sunday 10th April with a bus journey to Moffat.  The weather had been astounding in Glasgow and that carried on as we left Buchanan Street Bus Station on the X74, an unusually cheery driver entertaining the passengers with his quick wit and banter. [...]

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