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Maps for Dungeon Hills, Rhinns of Kells and Minnigaff Hills.

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The map on the left shows a route we have taken from Glen Trool up over the Rig of the Jarkness onto Craignaw and Mullwharchar and back by Loch Enoch and the Buchan Hill Ridge
This route was quite a tough 7 hours but if you are fit go for it, it really is a particularly memorable day in weather when the views are there to be got. The mixture of hills and lochs which is at the essence of the Galloway experience is with you all day on this route.
To go to the page with this walk illustrated click here.
The map on the right shows three routes we have used on the southern half of the Rhinns of Kells
Parking for the first of the Rhinns of Kells routes shown above right (yellow) is gained from the A713 road about 4k north of St John's Town of Dalry. You turn left off this road at Polharrow Bridge and head west some 6k to a designated parking space in the forest. I don't have a record of the time we took on this route.

Parking for the second route (green) is gained from the A762 by turning left at the power station some 4k north of New Galloway and travelling some 7k west towards Clenrie. Parking at the gate at the edge of the trees is quite obvious with a police notice about good hill practice for hill walkers there. This route took us seven and a half hours. Going up the Rig of Clenrie is over tough irregular terraine and unspectacular - not my favourite. Click here for a page describing this walk.

To park at the position shown for the third route (light blue) on this map you have to take your chance along a forestry commission road with a gate at the end of it - which is usually unlocked! You get onto this forest road just east of the deer museum by Clatteringshaws loch A712. There is a quarry at the foot of Darrou where you can park without bothering anyone. You can park officially at Craigencallie and add a boring 4k's walk along forest road to your day. We took 8 hours to the route from the quarry in snow.
Silver Flow and Dungeon Hills
 This map shows a route up over the Silver Flow past the Long and Round Lochs of the Dungeon and Dry Loch, Then up the narrow ridge onto Dungeon Hill, past Nick of the Dungeon to Craignaw and back down onto the Silver Flow again. We used that forest road with the usually unlocked gate mentioned above to get to where we parked. This took us eight and a half hours and is well worth taking a chance on the gate, though if it was locked at the end of the day you might not think so.

This map also shows the relationship between the hills shown in two maps above, as does the picture below.
Minnigaff Hills and the Rig of the Jarkness
 The map on the left shows a route we have used which leaves Loch Trool, ascends the Minnigaff Hills - Mulldonoch and Lamachan, goes down the Bennanbrach ridge and back up onto Curleywee and White Hill, before descending near Loch Dee, to go up Craiglee along the Rig of the Jarkness and down by the Buchan Burn to Glentrool again.
We actually did it the other way round. The final part of the descent from Mulldonoch down past White Bennan is steep and rough going and could be dangerous in wet slithery conditions. You have to choose your line of descent carefully. As an ascent of course it's not much better but once you are up above the treeline there's no problem. Stay east of the rock faces. The route is well worth the wee bit hassle though. It took us eight and a quarter hours. Craiglee is an awkward hill to build into a decent day's circular route, but it is again well worth visiting.This map again helps to show how the Minnigaff Hills are related to the rest of the Galloway hills

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