Durisdeer Hills and Dalveen Pass
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View from near the top of Durisdeer Hill looking back over the Well Path towards Well Hill View from near the top of Durisdeer Hill looking back over the Well Path towards Well Hill View from near the top of Durisdeer Hill looking back over the Well Path towards Well Hill
26 Here I am near the top of Durisdeer Hill looking back to the descent made from Well Hill. That descent is made treacherous by old fence wire that has been left lying around when the fence was renewed; which is something we often find near fences in these hills. The ascent up onto Durisdeer Hill (which is only about 150 mts) is definitely worth making rather than just taking the easy option and heading down the vehicle track back to Durisdeer - as you can see from the pages which follow.
The Potrail Water originates from various wee burns around the North and East sides of Durisdeer Hill and heads North East to meet Daer Water near Glenochar by the A702 (OS Ref. NS955137), where these conjoined waters become the River Clyde. So what you are looking at down there in the valley in the picture above is one of the sources of the River Clyde. Click here for further discussion of this.
That is in fact the watershed between the systems of the River Nith and the River Clyde down there. The water running left out of this picture goes down into the Nith, past the town of Dumfries and out into the Solway Firth; the water running right runs up past Glasgow and out into the Firth of Clyde.
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