I am back in London after my adventures in the Scottish/English border country, having bagged 8 more Marilyns, leaving 30 to do to reach the Hall of Fame entry level of 600.

A lot of credit for this goes to Graham Nash who arrived in Langholm on my third day, with mountain bikes so we could more easily access the tops via forest paths and roads.

Few of the tops have paths so at times the underfoot conditions were  tough.

The overall rewards were great with a real sense of satisfaction.  In total I had 3 days on my own and one with Graham during which time I saw no-one else on empty  hills only 40 miles from the crowded Lake District!  All hills were in Scotland with the exception of Peel Fell (pictured below) which is on the border and which was approached from the English side.

In total on this excellent trip I walked 48k, off road mountain biked a further 22k and ascended approximately 10,250 ft.