A 10km walk on the hills behind Georgia and Mark’s new home.
Route: from Gorrenberry Cottage up the road a little to take a track heading up Bught Shank to pass the memorial to Ken Lyall who bought the original farm with Jane Bower in 2011 to turn it into the Gorenberry Estate ecological project. Then round and down to cross Gorenberry Burn and rise up onto the flanks of Dod Fell, quickly losing the track and plunging into long wet grass to cross under what remains of Dod Plantation, herding some unfortunate sheep out of the way, and then up Braidley Burn to visit Braidliehope, a deserted farmhouse at the top of the valley in need of a keen builder's project management skills one day. Then back down the track to the east of the burn, above an occasional archery range, and down to the road, turning right to walk back up the house past the home of the inventor of garlic ginger marmalade!
Conditions: low cloud hiding the tops but warm enough and dry
Pub: back to the cottage for bottled beer including William Brothers’ Joker IPA and BrewDog Punk IPA.
