Start: Bryness bed and breakfast NT 76353 02665
Wild camp in refuge shelter at: NT 87742 20149
End: Kirk Yeltholm pub NT 82804 28101
Distance: 43k
Duration: 8 hours then 3 hours next day
Direction: N through forest then NE following line of tops, up and down over each top, the line then going NW then NE and ENE. Diverted to top of the Cheviot at 815m.
Description: Ups and downs of tops of the Cheviots - very boggy and wet, requiring diversions, and cloudy misty most of the time. Amazed to see a walker in sandals in these conditions, but talking to him, he explained these were Keen Walking sandals, tough, and if you were going to get wet boots anyway, your feet dried quicker in sandals. I'll stick with boots though! Cleared on the Cheviot at 6pm. Stayed in Shelter using bivvy bag on hard bench 0 temperature was -1 inside the shelter at 6am and hard white frost outside! Shivered but still enjoyed it and carried on to complete the Pennine Way National Trail and warm up in pub and then Youth Hostel at Kirk Yeltholm.
Area :
Northumberland
Includes the Borders and the Cheviots. The Cheviot Hills, separated by the Tyne Gap and the Whin Sill, along which run the A69 and Hadrian's Wall, are not part of the Pennines but, perhaps because the Pennine Way crosses them, they are often treated as such.
