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Headed to Peebles for a leg stretch to try some new boots.
Started out through the suburbs, followed a John Buchan way sign which wasn't accurate, but managed to find it again later on. Trees were looking lovely around the schools rugby pitches, but I was soon heading through muddy green fields upward.
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Seana CarrollI entered the forest where there are plenty of paths - beware though, some of them jut loop back to where they started
I did get on to a path which followed the ridge, and eventually came out of the forest into a felled area the top just a few hundred metres away. Bit of a dull hill really, but if I was going to visit the forts, might as well do the top as well.
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Seana CarrollI returned by the same route for a bit, before heading out to the grassy hillside. In the next col, there was supposedly a fort or settlement, but not much left, the next fort the same, but the last one was good, you could see the layout and I liked it
Shame it was windy, and what a cold wind too! So I stopped at a sheepfold further down, where there was a good sitting rock.
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Seana CarrollThen I wound my way down to the tweed which I followed back to Peebles. Bonny trees and scenery for the most part, although there is a section along the railway which is a bit drab. Very muddy though
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