- Southern Upland Way
- Day 1 – Portpatrick to New Luce
- Day 2 – New Luce to Bargrennan
- Day 3 – Bargrennan to Dalry
- Day 4 – Dalry to Sanquhar
- Day 5 – Sanquhar to Wanlockhead
- Day 6 – Wanlockhead to Moffat
- Day 7 – Moffat to St Mary’s Loch
- Day 8 – St Mary’s Loch to Galashiels
- Day 9 – Galashiels to Lauder
- Day 10 – Lauder to Longformacus
- Day 11 – Longformacus to Cockburnspath
- Waymerks – ULTREIA (spoilers)
- Walked the Southern Upland Way
- Striding Arches
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While walking the Southern Upland Way, I came across a seemingly abandoned arch on the top of Benbrack (during day 4 of the walk so I feared I was hallucinating from the exertion of walking).
Quite a while later it all clicked into place – it was better signposted from a road than approaching by walking!
Striding Arches is an artist-led project ‘which celebrates and interprets a little known area of Dumfries & Galloway in south-west Scotland’. Andy Goldsworthy’s red sandstone arches ‘stride’ around a natural amphitheatre deep in the Southern Uplands.
The Arches are formed from 31 hand-dressed blocks of red sandstone from a nearby quarry, each arch stands just under four metres high, with a span of seven metres, weighing approximately 27 tons, and is totally self-supporting.
So that explains it! Glad I didn’t have to carry a piece up there.
