It makes such a difference to be out of the drizzle, mizzle and dreich weather and to see glimpses of blue sky.
We left West Linton this morning with blue skies rather than the pouring rain we had left it in yesterday.
The day began with a wander through the village until we came to the Cross Borders Drive Road. We climbed up a long drag alongside Faw Mount, where I began the descent back down to the car.
Garry chose to make a detour through a meadow and soon came to Baddinsgill reservoir.
Garry continued along the Drove Road passing Baddinsgill farm and reservoir where he joined the Thieves Road. This is where robbers and cattle thieves (reivers) would lie in wait in the undergrowth to raid the herds passing along the Drove Road.
Once he was out of the farmland section, it was over moors and over the pass between two hills, know as the Cauldstane Slap. Descending from the Cauldstone Slap gave far reaching views north towards Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth (and the Forth Road and railway bridges). The Cauldstone Slap was a useful route through the remote Pentland Hills.
As he continued down the path, the route became much more boggy. Here, me and Alfie had walked for a mile over bog and some boarded sections, and waited for Garry for 10 minutes (mainly to avoid a muddy slope climb). (If you can zoom in, you can see him in the distance).
We walked back to Little Vantage together, trying to avoid bog and cow pats (unsuccessfully for me!) and then Garry continued onto Kirknewton railway station. This part began on the busy A70 for a short while and then on a country lane, passing some farms and ending up in Kirknewton.
12.6 miles walked for Garry and 6 for me and Alfie. We are to the South West of Edinburgh now and can see planes flying to and from Edinburgh airport from our Airbnb.
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