Day 7 – Sanquhar to Overfingland (14.5 miles)

We left ‘Euchanfoot B&B’ after a very pleasant stay (probably the best accommodation on the trek so far!)… we still had 1.5 miles of yesterday’s walk into Sanquhar proper to go…
All routes out of Sanquhar are slightly uphill, which was good because the view back when you stopped for a quick breather was well worth it. We kept climbing through the ‘Conrig Hill pass’ and then down to ‘Cogshead’ where we found our first hidden treasure of the day.
Our lunchtime destination today would be Wanlockhead (425m, reputedly Britain’s highest village?), to get there we just had a traverse ‘Glengaber Hill’. We stopped for lunch at the Wanlockhead Inn (Scotland’s highest pub)….
After lunch, the high point of the whole walk (725m), the long ascent of Lowther Hill complete with teed up ‘golf ball’ (Radar station; home to “National Air Traffic Services” NATS), and crash site of a Hawker Hurricane 1941.
Now we just had to get down from this lofty perch, “Easier said than done I hear you say”. Quite right, now I expected to go up slightly and down Cold Moss & Comb Head on the way but, oversight on my part, the wee ‘Laght Hill’ (507m) was missed during map reading so was an unexpected hindrance to our plan to reach today’s point up point at 17:30…. making us 20mins late 🙁 However, I did manage to find treasure in Kist No.7 in all the commotion. But, upon arrival at the pickup point, didn’t manage to register a tracking beacon.
Stats: Total Mileage: 111.9 Pint count: 15