We have had some great hikes recently. First, we had been wanting to get back to the Grey Mare’s Tail to hike from there to Loch Skeen. The last time we went we hiked up just far enough to get a good view of the waterfall, but it was too windy for us to go much higher since the path up is fairly close to the edge of the hill. Luckily, last Sunday was a perfect day for hiking.
Since the hike to Loch Skeen was more mentally challenging than physically challenging, we decided to head back to Moffat to do the short Chapel hike that we hadn’t yet walked. This is a 2 mile loop route that takes you out of town near the gulf course and up a fairly steep hill until you turn into the farmyard that has the ruins of the old chapel before walking back through farm fields and then along the river back into town.
On a weird weather Wednesday, Bob, Bruce, and I headed to the highest town in Scotland for a bit of a hike on the Southern Upland Way, Scotland’s coast-to-coast route. We had walked a portion of this route out of St. John’s Town of Dalry. On Wednesday we walked about 90 minutes out of Wanlockhead towards Sanquhar before turning around and coming back. We started in heavy wind, got snowed on a bit, and then saw sun before we were through.
Peckish Travels 
