Route: from the car park at Forrest Lodge, taking Prof Hans Heiberg Road - a rough forestry track - through a conifer forest and then across a felled landscape slowly to gain altitude before leaving the road on a boggy track to cross a stile onto fellside. Then following a very minor track up over hillocks onto a discernible ridge and keeping in touch with a wall to the top of Meikle Millyea. Detouring to a further summit cairn 1km to the west for a view, there and back, and then following the ridge north on boggy ground to the bumpy knolls of Milldown and Millfire and up a long but dry grassy path to Corserine. A 1km detour north down to a saddle and then up to Carlin's Cairn for lunch and back and then east to try to find the descent. In retrospect, obviously overshooting and so roughing it over tussocky grass down the edge of a combe to cross a stile back into the forest and taking Robert Watson Road - we think - back to the car park.
Conditions: a hot and generally still day but with a gentle breeze on the tops.
Pub: The Bridge of Ken Hotel, New Galloway, for Orkney Crosscrake.
