Tuesday 10 Sept 2019
20 miles
20 miles total
Up early for breakfast at 7am and was away by 8.30, glad to be actually walking after all that travel. My B&B, Blunty's Mill was very comfortable.
Once you leave KY you get a choice of a high route or a low route. They meet up after a few miles but there is more climbing on the high route(because it has more downs). Still I went that way, can't take the soft option on day one, can you? I made reasonable time and got ti the Auchope hut by about 1pm. Then a stiff climb, followed by a detour to visit the summit of The Cheviot, highest point in the Cheviot hills at 820m.
After that, I just carried on towards Byrness. I had hoped to reach the other mountain hut, at Yearning Saddle, but having lost an hour or more going to The Cheviot, I ran out of time. The sky began to darken and I looked for somewhere to put up the tent. That took a while because it was getting quite windy and the Cheviots are very short of shelter. Eventually I found a small gully that seemed a little sheltered and up went the tent. Good timing because it soon started to rain and the wind has become quite strong.
All in all a successful first day.. a bit more walking than I really should have done perhaps, but it will leave less to do tomorrow
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| These are called the Stob Stones. Note the cloud.. |
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| This is the border fence between England and Scotland.. here I am still in Scotland though there is a track on the other side too, for Anglophiles |
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| Still cloud about but it is lifting |
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| Tbe auchope hut. |
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| Peculiar trig point on top of The Cheviot.. |
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| Selfie. Nobody else about! |
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| Navigating the Cheviots must have been a total nightmare before they started laying these flagstones .. |
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