Paddy Dillon


	WALKING THE GALLOWAY HILLS By Paddy Dillon (read excerpts from this book at Google Books) Published by Cicerone Press (read more about this book at Cicerone) ISBN 1-85284-168-0 Price £7.99 A casual suggestion from Walt Unsworth led to a strenuous exploration of the broad, bleak, boggy, rocky Galloway Hills in South West Scotland. The route research was accomplished a bit at a time, a week here and there, stretching from winter into summer. Accommodation was usually in remote Mountain Bothies and the walks were tackled day after day, sometimes without setting foot on tarmac for a week. Deep snow hampered the route research in the winter, while plagues of midges made it difficult in the summer, but eventually all the pieces fitted into place. Harveys Maps offered the use of their detailed Galloway Hills map when they heard about the guidebook, so extracts from their map appear throughout the book. That contact led to another small project, as the Galloway Hills map needed a Visitor Guide to be written and illustrated, for distribution with the map. WALK CONTENTS Walk 1 - Stroan Bridge Forest Trails Walk 2 - Loch Trool Forest Trail Walk 3 - Fell of Eschoncan and Pulnagashel Walk 4 - Bennan and the Fell of Eschoncan Walk 5 - Merrick and Loch Enoch Walk 6 - Merrick and Kirriereoch Hill Walk 7 - Tarfessock and Kirriereoch Hill Walk 8 - Cornish Hill and Shalloch on Minnoch Walk 9 - Carrick Forest Drive and Cornish Hill Walk 10 - Loch Riecawr and Tunskeen Bothy Walk 11 - Kirriereoch Hill from Tunskeen Bothy Walk 12 - Mullwharchar from Tunskeen Bothy Walk 13 - Macaterick from the Carrick Forest Drive Walk 14 - Around Craigmawhannal from Loch Doon Walk 15 - Mullwharchar from Loch Head Walk 16 - Carlin's Cairn from Loch Head Walk 17 - Carlin's Cairn and Corserine from Polmaddie Walk 18 - Corserine from Backhill of Bush Walk 19 - Milldown from Backhill of Bush Walk 20 - Tops of Craigeazle from Backhill of Bush Walk 21 - Darrou, Little Millyea and Meikle Millyea Walk 22 - Darnaw and Court Knowe from Black Loch Walk 23 - Cairnarroch and Millfore from Craigencallie Walk 24 - Millfore from Auchinleck Walk 25 - Lamachan Hill from Auchinleck Walk 26 - Larg Hill from Caldons Campsite Walk 27 - Lamachan Hill and Mulldonoch Walk 28 - Curleywee and Lamachan Hill from White Laggan Walk 29 - Craiglee and Loch Dee from White Laggan Walk 30 - Craiglee from Craigencallie Walk 31 - Loch Valley and Craiglee from Glen Trool Walk 32 - The Dungeon Hills from Backhill of Bush Walk 33 - The Dungeon Hills from Glen Trool Walk 34 - The Forest Walk Walk 35 - The Awful Hand Walk Walk 36 - The Rhinns of Kells Walk Walk 37 - The Minnigaff Hills Walk Walk 38 - The Dungeon Hills Walk Walk 39 - The Grand Tour Walk 40 - The Southern Upland Way BACK TO THE BOOK LIST