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Bodesbeck Ridge
Map of a linear hill walk in the Ettrick Hills from Birkhill, over Mid Rig, Andrewhinney Hill, Bell Craig and Nowtrig Head to Bodesbeck Law, returning by the same route
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Moffat Hills Introduction
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Map of a hill walk along the Bodesbeck Ridge in the Ettrick Hills Map of a hill walk along the Bodesbeck Ridge in the Ettrick Hills Map of a hill walk along the Bodesbeck Ridge in the Ettrick Hills
01 This walk is a linear ridge walk - you go out and come back along the same ridge. Yet the superb views to the north west across Moffatdale into the Moffat Hills keep the walk interesting in both directions and the going is fairly easy. The hills immediately south of Moffatdale are called the Ettrick hills and our walk today goes along their northern edge.
Though there are several tops along the ridge none of them involve all that much ascending and descending between them. I took 2hour 50 mins heading down to Bodesbeck Law and 2 hours 10 mins to come back - most of the photographs were taken on the outward leg