booting up as the coach drops us in Sanquhar ..

.. and we set out eastwards on the Southern Uplands Way

looking back down on Sanquhar

"not seen a strange group quite like this before"

climbing onto the first ridge ..

.. and looking back westwards over typical Southern Uplands terrain

looking back to the first ridge

approaching the highest point of the traverse

descending into the Wanlockhead valley ..

.. and lower down with one of the old lead mines below

zooming in on the abandoned mine

Wanlockhead with the mast on Green Lowther beyond

Green Lowther and Lowther Hill beyond the village of Wanlockhead

looking back westwards from the final appraoach into Wanlockhead

mining relics below the village

looking back along an old leat to a mining slag heap

the Wanlockhead beam engine