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Around Ettrick Head - Capel Fell, Wind Fell and Ettrick Pen in Winter
Map of a circular walking route in the Ettrick hills around Ettrick Head - over Fauldside Hill, White Shank, Capel Fell, Wind Fell, Hopetoun Craig and Ettrick Pen - from Capplegill on Moffat Water.
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Map of a circular walking route in the Ettrick hills around Ettrick Head Map of a circular walking route in the Ettrick hills around Ettrick Head Map of a circular walking route in the Ettrick hills around Ettrick Head
01 The route discussed in this web gallery is the blue route shown in the map above and it was done anti-clockwise. The red dots show the route of the Southern Upland Way (SUW). You will see from this that it would be quite possible to make two shorter walks out of the blue route - ie. by heading down from Capel Fell to Ettrick Head and the bothy at Over Phawhope using the SUW and hence back to Capplegill by Potburn and the track that goes over between Bodesbeck Law and Fauldside Hill (as in the final leg of route shown above).
You could then come back on another day and do the other half of the route. I took seven hours and ten minutes to the blue route in tough snow conditions, plus, as you will see I took plenty of photographs and that takes time. You could also add Bodesbeck Law to the route if you wanted and we have done this in the past.
The range of hills which lie north west of the A708 is the Moffat hills and the range of hills to the south east where we are going today is the Ettrick hills. The Moffat hills will offer a fine backdrop to our day's walk for most of the day. You can see a map of the whole area by clicking on the Large Map of West Borders Hills which you will find among the links at the top of every page.
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