Broughton Heights and Trahenna Hill

Ascent	600m (2,000ft)
Distance	12km (7.5m)
Time	walk : 4hr
Terrain	easy difficult
Nav	easy testing
Effort	stroll long day
Scenery	ok stunning

Getting there

• Just south of Blyth Bridge, a narrow quiet road leads to a few houses and the church and cemetary at Kirkurd. There is space to park by the church.

Broughton Heights

• From the church, head south-east along the road to the start of a farm track. Up this track for 250m to a gate by the edge of a small section of forestry.
• Through the gate and on a faint grassy track, head aside the forest, then uphill. A slight drop and over a fence brings you to a vast area of foresty covering the hill ahead, there is however a gap ahead through the middle of the forest following a fence travelling uphill. Aim up this gap until the fence line turns sharply, then continue on the same bearing through denser and darker undergrowth and the end of a track will be met.
• A jog of 1km will take you to the end of the forest and onto open hillside. Ahead and uphill, it's a short walk over grass and tussocks of blaeberry to Wether Law and the fenceline to follow to the trig point on Broughton Heights' summit.

Brown Dod and return

• Head back along the crest following the fence, then cut down towards the col before Brown Dod - there is a faint track to follow.
• Now at the upper edge of forestry, follow the faint track along the crest to Flint Hill where the track disappears.
• A quick descent on grass gains the next col, where a gate provides access to forestry tracks. Over the gate, take the left-hand track and follow it for 3km to a barrier (it is possible to start and finish from this point, which is accessed using a rough track from the A72, 1.5km south-east of Blyth Bridge and marked with a forestry sign 'Ladyurd').
• The track then continues past some houses, farm buildings and through a couple of gates back to Kirkurd.

Ascent	1700m (5,575ft)
Distance	29km (18m)
Time	run : 4hr
Terrain	easy difficult
Nav	easy testing
Effort	stroll long day
Scenery	ok stunning

Getting there

• As the name suggests, there are two breweries - one at the start by Traquair and the other at the end by Broughton.
• The race starts from Broughton, from where runners are bused over to Traquair House.

Birkscairn Hill

• Starting in Traquair House grounds, the route heads out along the magnificent tree-lined avenue onto the public road for 1km.
• Runners are directed south-west into a field and onto a rough track which quickly gives way to rough open hillside.
• On grass, then heather higher up, faint paths can be traced to reach a forest's edge to follow to a col below Birks Hill. Up this hill, then Birkscairn Hill shortly thereafter.

Hundleshope Heights and Stob Law

• From the summit of Birkscairn Hill, runners turn north-west and drop down rough heather clad slopes to Glensax burn below.
• Up onto Hundleshope Heights via a faint path avoiding the tiring heather and tussocks, south-east next to trace a faint trod to meet up with a path contouring north around the north side of Broom Hill's summit. A drop to a col followed by a sharp slog uphill reaches Stob Law.

Whitelaw Hill

• A track then is used for the descent to Glenrath Farm, then a grassy track is taken into forest. Coming to a sharp corner on the track, the route is flagged through some undergrowth, then up a fire-break to Whitelaw Hill.

Trahenna Hill

• From Whitelaw Hill, the race turns south-west along a faint path, intitially through more forest, then open hillside following a dyke and the forest edge. At the next col, a gap in the dyke is gone through, then north-west downhill on track that improves as height is lost.
• Past some buildings, the River Tweed is crossed and a quick blast along 1km of tarmac takes the route to a turn onto a track to Stobo Home farm. A very pleasant run through forest is followed by a drop to a bridge over Weston Burn to pick up a track.
• Beyond the bridge, runners aim to stay on the track until it turns sharply back on itself which leads to a faint path through the wet rush grass. A last slog up Trahenna's steep grass-covered hillside awaits !

Return to Broughton

• A faint trod is picked up from Trahenna and traced around Muir Burn's corrie, then down to a field above Broughton. Onto tarmac, a run leads to Broughton brewery, where plenty of refreshing beer awaits.