06 March 2011

Hill Walking at River Stinchar and Cornish Loch

Despite our cycle yesterday, our evening at the Talent Spot, and a big mac at 2315, we were out walking this morning. A short 'taster' walk in the Galloway Forest park. Unlike last week, its cold today, never getting above 4 °C at any time.
The six of us set off in good time, 1 camera, 6 phones, 3 GPS between us.
Beautiful though rugged landscape, much tougher than the walking part of the Bronze Maggies event but good fun.
Cornish Loch Panoramic looking from the West
We only walked for 5.5km in just about 2 hours.
I logged the walk with both my new smartphone using the iMapMyrun android app and my garmin cycle gps. I had to reset the cycle computer as it kept pausing as we weren't walking fast enough for it and it took a few minutes for the phone to find the GPS satellites. However both finally tied closely with the 'real' walked GPS we also had with us (another boy toy).
after lunch back in the cars, we headed for the nearest tea room which was in Straiton and then home.

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