Ronald Turnbull Walking in the Southern Uplands 44 best hill days in southern Scotland

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A guidebook to 44 walks covering over 100 summits in Scotland’s Southern Uplands. Exploring an area stretching south-west from Edinburgh to the English border, including the Galloway and Pentland Hills, the routes are suitable for walkers of all abilities and are perfect for walking year-round.

The day walks, accessible from Newton Stewart, Glentrool, Nithsdale, Biggar, Moffat, Peebles, Edinburgh and Kirk Yetholm, range from 3-29km (2-18 miles).

1:50, 000 OS maps included for each walk

GPX files available to download

Detailed information on planning, transport and local history

Sized to easily fit in a jacket pocket

€18.99

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Map key
Overview map

Introduction

Boundaries of the Borders
Real remoteness
Rolling – but also rocky
Lists of hills
Border reivers
The Covenanters
When to go
Transport
Accommodation
Tourist information and other facilities
Maps
Compass and GPS
Safety in the mountains
Using this guide

1 Galloway

Walk 1 Girvan and Grey Hill
Walk 2 Ailsa Craig
Walk 3 Cairnsmore of Fleet
Walk 4 Minnigaff Hills
Walk 5 Merrick and Murder Hole
Walk 6 The Dungeon Hills
Walk 7 Rhinns of the Kells
Walk 8 Cairnsmore of Carsphairn
Walk 9 Screel Hill

2 Nithsdale and Lanarkshire

Walk 10 Afton Water
Walk 11 Criffel
Walk 12 Queensberry
Walk 13 Well Hill, Durisdeer
Walk 14 Lowther Hill by Well and Enterkin passes
Walk 15 Tinto
Walk 16 Culter Fells
Walk 17 Broughton Heights

3 Moffatdale

Walk 18 Devil’s Beef Tub
Walk 19 Ettrick Head
Walk 20 Hart Fell
Walk 21 White Coomb
Walk 22 White Coomb and Hart Fell
Walk 23 Loch of the Lowes and Ward Law
Walk 24 The Wiss and St Mary’s Loch

4 Manor Hills to the Tweed

Walk 25 Broad Law
Walk 26 Manor Head
Walk 27 Cademuir Hill and the Tweed
Walk 28 Glen Sax Circuit
Walk 29 Lee Pen and Windlestraw Law
Walk 30 Three Brethren and Minch Moor
Walk 31 Eildon Hills and the Tweed
Walk 32 Rubers Law

5 Lothian

Walk 33 Pentlands
Walk 34 Arthur’s Seat
Walk 35 Blackhope Scar
Walk 36 Lammer Law
Walk 37 Abbey St Bathans and Cockburn Law
Walk 38 North Berwick Law

6 The Border Ridge to Cheviot

Walk 39 Langholm Heights
Walk 40 Cauldcleuch Head
Walk 41 Peel Fell and Kielder Stone
Walk 42 Hownam Law
Walk 43 Windy Gyle
Walk 44 The Cheviot and Hen Hole

Appendix A Walk summary table
Appendix B Information and facilities by area
Appendix C Scots glossary

Über den Autor

Ronald Turnbull was born in St Andrews, Scotland, into an energetic fellwalking family. His grandfather was a president of the Scottish Mountaineering Club, and a more remote ancestor was distinguished as only the second climbing fatality in Snowdonia. In 1995 Ronald won the Fell Running Association’s Long-distance Trophy for a non-stop run over all the 2000ft hills of Southern Scotland; his other proud achievements include the ascent of the north ridge of the Weisshorn and a sub-2hr Ben Nevis race. He enjoys multi-day treks, through the Highlands in particular, and has made 21 different coast-to-coast crossings of the UK. He has also slept out, in bivvy bag rather than tent, on over 80 UK summits. Outside the UK he likes hot, rocky areas of Europe, ideally with beaches and cheap aeroplanes. Recently he achieved California’s 220-mile John Muir Trail and East Lothian’s 45-mile John Muir Way in a single season, believing himself the first to have achieved this slightly perverse double. He has also started trying to understand the geology of what he’s been walking and climbing on for so long. Ronald lives in the Lowther Hills of Dumfriesshire, and most of his walking, and writing, takes place in the nearby Lake District and in the Scottish Highlands. His recent books include The Book of the Bivvy , and walking/scrambling guides Loch Lomond and the Trossachs , The Cairngorms and Ben Nevis & Glen Coe , as well as Three Peaks Ten Tors – a slightly squint-eyed look at various UK challenge walks. He has nine times won Outdoor Writers & Photographers Guild Awards for Excellence for his guidebooks, outdoor books (including Book of the Bivvy), and magazine articles. He has a regular column in Lakeland Walker and also writes in Trail , Cumbria and TGO (The Great Outdoors). His current, hopelessly ambitious, project is to avoid completing the Munros for at least another 20 years.

Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 272 ● ISBN 9781783621293 ● Dateigröße 19.8 MB ● Verlag Cicerone Press ● Ort Kendal ● Land GB ● Erscheinungsjahr 2022 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 3590463 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM

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