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Walk An overgrown Roslin Glen Length 6 miles

Dogs on walk Brooklyn, Cyrano, Darcy, Dylan, Finlay, Otis, Teela, Tim

A return to Roslin Glen for the first time in several months. Last time it was mud all the

way. After recent good weather I hoped it would be passable once again. It was but not

without it challenges. Seriously overgrown paths tended to hinder progress. Nettles

reaching across them to tickle and then sting legs. A good day for shorts! Brambles too

waiting to whip as you passed, curling their thorny stems around exposed skin. All hidden

by grasses and the flimsy branches of bushes. To add to the challenge many sections of

path had been washed into deep gullies. Storm waters having carved deep into the path

making it hard to walk along, only space for one foot at a time as it had dropped in depth

to over six inches below the ground around it. Lush green grasses tipping over the lip to

obscure the uneven ground making each step a step of faith.

We made progress. Teela on the lead at first, as usual, until she had settled into the walk.

Brooklyn looking for some fun from the outset, jumped around the others before

entertaining himself in the undergrowth. The rest stringing along the path, picking their

way through its jungle of traps. We wound our way along Bilston Glen to cross the old

railway bridge, high in the canopy of the trees striding down the sides of the glen.

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way up. All but him managed it. His unhappy barking drawing me back into sight as I

showed him the way up. He was not convinced. Even when Teela with her much shorter

legs went down and joined him and then came back up again did little to increase his

confidence. As I prepared to go down and give him hand to jump up the four foot of rockonto the inclined bank he finally made the leap. Easy.

We pushed back through the fallen trees and over the landslide dipping in the river for a

final clean before climbing out of the glen and making our way back around the edge of

Bilston Glen to the car.

Nick

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