Hill walk routes to climb in SW Scotland
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Around Loch Skene -
Winter
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On Lochcraig Head we are 30 miles or so to the south west of Edinburgh so the times will not be all that different, though it is interesting to think that every spot on Mother Earth has it's own time profile in relation to the sun. I love this fact that everywhere is special when you "take time to it", both metaphorically and in astronomic mathematics. A certain inarticulate subtle-spiritual half-awareness of this provides much of my motivation for going into wild places - just to say a friendly hello to them and feel their presence with respect and even reverence. Such places humble the arrogance of mere transient beings like us, they demand respect, but they seem to cleanse the soul if you let them. When you touch just something of the bigger realities of existence it sure knocks the hell out of the cult of celebrity which dominates our contemporary society.
But the eon-enduring landscape has it's transient aspects too as you can see in the picture below - snow which lasts for a few days and dilapidated dry stane dykes which last for a few hundred years as dykes.
