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There's another source of error if your GPS has a barometric altimeter. On a windy day the instantaneous pressure sensed by the barometer can vary wildly. As an example, when I climbed Beinn na h-Eaglaise in Torridon, height 736m, contour counting told me we climbed in total about 800m, but my Garmi...

After a week of depressing weather, Wednesday's forecast looked hopeful for Galloway. The Met Office predicted a 5% probability of precipitation most of the day for Moniaive, with some sun thrown in for good measure. Decision made, some essential pre-walk reading of reports by Fife Flyer and Inca th...

New Year's Eve was an exceptionally fine day for a winter walk and too good to miss. There was bright sunshine all day in Glen Eagles with almost no wind and most wind turbines static. The temperature climbed (slightly) above freezing as I accompanied Jaywizz on another section of her skyline trek a...

A very useful report as I'm planning to visit Fleet of Fell some time soon. I was thinking of taking my bike and reading your account has confirmed it would be a good idea.. I'll first make a special study of Google and Bing's aerial views so I can avoid battling with the trees, though you do appear...

From your photos there looks to have been more felling since Jaywizz and I visited Woodhead Hill in May 2018. We had no stretches of felled forest or dense foliage to arrive at the same mountain bike trail and sign as you. Like you we left it to head for the summit and took what turned out to be an ...

The first available day with a good dry forecast for a fortnight tempted me south to a few miles west of Moniaive with Wether Hill in my sights. It was a straightforward two-hour twenty-minute drive with the temperature sub-zero all the way and dipping down to minus seven celsius. Wether route s.gif...

With daylight hours shortening by the day I took the forecast of a dry day as an opportunity to do one of the longer walks on my wish list. Longer because of the distance I had to drive rather than how far I had to walk. From near Edinburgh to Bruce's Stone by Loch Troon took almost three hours driv...

Innerdownie route ss.gif A 10:10 start from the Glen Sherup car park saw us on a frozen summit in about 1:40 hours. The first 3km were along a good forest road to reach a cairn that marked a well travelled fire-break straight through the forest for 300m to a gate to the open hillside. P1030934 s.JP...

The most exciting bit of the day - for me at least - was meeting an articulated lorry coming towards me on a single-track road without passing places as it rounded an uphill Z-bend. Thar required a 100m reverse to find a field entrance large enough to allow the artic to pass. After that it was smoot...

Fife Flyer wrote:Many congrats, I had to look back and see when I did Cairnsmore and looking at the photos again it was a cracking day.

You definitely chose great weather for your first visit. Good luck selecting a similar day when you add those missing Donald Tops to your CV!

In October 2017 a wet Cauldcleugh Head saw Jaywizz and I complete the 69 main Donald summits listed by Walk Highlands. To truly complete the Donalds, as pointed out by keeper of the list Dave Hewitt, the 51 subsidiary tops should also be visited. Since I had only noted 26 of them in my log I had 25 ...

Good to see these two Borders hills again. It's a useful report for anybody thinking about tackling them in the near future. Thanks for the name check too. I remember that day, and the wander through the Blackwood Hill wood well. There was something very stilling about it. Shame to see the terrain ...

With weather and appointments apparently ruling out any walking for me over the next week, a good forecast on Monday saw me hazarding the Edinburgh bypass morning rush hour, and for once without much delay. For variety I took the A68 to Jedburgh then via Bonchester Bridge to the B6357 on my way to t...

Great report and thanks for the mention, we seem to be gathering up the Borders Marilyn's between us. I have been using quite a few of your reports for the ones further south. Parking is always a challenge and it is just as well the Borders hills aren't popular yet. Only 15 hills left to visit down...

Calkin Rig - 2.4hr, 8.6km, 376m $matches[2] The forecast was good and it was a Saturday so I didn't meet the usual early morning delays as I circled the Edinburgh bypass to the A7 on my way to Langholm and my first objective. I parked where others had and followed much the same route noting as I di...

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Re: Measuring Ascent and Descent

A fine day for Cairnkinna and Fell Hills

A roundabout route for a Tump

Re: Hard hat, goggles and machete required

Re: 3 Wee Yins and more jungle photo's

Wether Hill, Galloway

A fine day for Craiglee

Innerdownie

Steele's Knowe from the north

Re: Going to Extremes to Truly Compleate the Donalds

Going to Extremes to Truly Compleate the Donalds

Re: Liddesdale forests and road closures

Liddesdale forests and road closures

Re: Two Langholm Marilyn's and a Parking Problem Solved.

Two Langholm Marilyn's and a Parking Problem Solved.