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Around Loch Skene - Winter
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View down to the parking area for Grey Mare's Tail from the track which goes up to Loch Skene. View down to the parking area for Grey Mare's Tail from the track which goes up to Loch Skene. View down to the parking area for Grey Mare's Tail from the track which goes up to Loch Skene.
02 Here are a couple of December 2008 shots. That's my car (the white one) parked in the car park beside the A708 (which runs from left to right across the picture just beyond the car park) OS Ref. NT187146. This area is under the protection of the National Trust for Scotland and the hut that you see this side of the car park is a visitor's centre run by them and manned in the summer months. They have information there about the area and usually they have a remote camera set up that so that you can watch live - birds nesting in the surrounding hills.
You can see the path running over from the car park to the bridge that crosses the Tail Burn - the route that you will take for Loch Skene (sometimes spelt Skeen). In the picture below we have zooomed out and we can see more of Moffat Dale. You can also see the path running up to Loch Skene at the bottom left of that picture. It is quite a steep climb at this point but it does not deter the many visitors to the area who go up to see Loch Skene often with totally inadequate clothes and footware - there have been fatalities. The path that you see bottom right just takes you to a viewing point below the Grey Mare's Tail.
Notice the tracks running along the other side of the valley dating from the times before the road was built. The hills on the far side of the valley are called the Ettrick Hills - the source of the River Ettrick is just on the other side of these hills.
These two pictures were taken as I descended at the end of the day getting the cross light of the setting sun from the right (ie from the SW).
View down to the parking area for Grey Mare's Tail from the track which goes up to Loch Skene.
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