Queensberry, Penbreck and Earncraig from Mitchellslacks
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Looking back at the bothy from track back to Mitchellslacks Looking back at the bothy from track back to Mitchellslacks Looking back at the bothy from track back to Mitchellslacks
24 In the picture above we are looking back at the bothy as we start to head down the Capel Burn side. You can see the burn running past the bothy. That's Earncraig to the right of the picture. The hill on the left is just a second top of Earncraig and not Gana Hill. The area between the two tops of Earncraig is called Daer Hass.
Hass is a Scots word for a gap or opening and if you were to go back up over there you can then follow the Daer Water down past Daer Reservoir on a vehicle track which you pick up at Daerhead. The Daer Water is as I have said one of the sources of the River Clyde that runs through Glasgow - so the Clyde starts just over that hill.
The Daer Hass would have been on a traditional route for heading up north from Dumfriesshire into Lanarkshire long before the advent of the reservoir. I know of folk who used this route to go over to the dancing in the mid 20th century in a hall by the Daer Reservoir click here for a map
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