Craignaw and the Dungeon Hills
Map of a circular hill walk in Galloway Forest Park from Bruce's Stone by Loch Trool up the Gairland Burn past Loch Valley and Loch Neldricken to Craignaw and Dungeon Hill, then back by the Wolf Slock, Criagneldricken and the Buchan Ridge
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Map of a hill walking route over Craignaw and the Dungeon Hills from Glentrool Map of a hill walking route over Craignaw and the Dungeon Hills from Glentrool Map of a hill walking route over Craignaw and the Dungeon Hills from Glentrool Map of a hill walking route over Craignaw and the Dungeon Hills from Glentrool
01 The route taken in this walk starts at Glentrool and follows the purple route as far as the south end of Loch Neldricken, at which point it heads due east on the blue route over Craignaw until it rejoins the purple route at the Wolf Slock and stays with it all the way back to Glentrool over the Buchan Ridge. You can see that we also added a dog leg out to Dungeon Hill. The purple route has it's own web gallery dating from 5th July 2006 and called Wolf Slock
The route in this web gallery combining the purple and blue routes was done on 9th August 2007. The 2006 Wolf Slock walk was done on a steamingly hot day (for Scotland) and the visibility was not quite so good as in the 2007 Craignaw day. It is interesting to compare similar scenes at a similar time of the year in similar sort of weather (though not so hot in 2007) and see how the experience of doing the walk can differ so much as a result of conditions on the day and of the weather leading up to that day - 2006 was done in a long spell of hot dry weather and 2007 after the wettest summer weather on record. Each day has it's own subtly distinctive feeling in the hills and it is those feelings which draw people into the hills again and again. Of course your own mood on the day is a big factor too - but the camera cannot pick that up unless in the choosing of the images taken.
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