Thursday 20/05/2010. Well I can't quite believe it, today I will be finishing my traverse of The Pennine Way! Yes I'm actually going to do it and it's a strange feeling for some reason! My regular time-keeping holds out and I'm making my way up Cairn Hill's rather boggy track by 7am. Unfortunately for me the clag is down, so this my final day's walking is the only day on which I have not set off in perfect conditions, but still nothing can interfere with my jovial self-assurance and I'm savouring the feeling of being a PW completer, I know, I know and I am conscious that chickens can be counted too soon. With the weather conditions I neither take the optional extension to top-out on the summit of The Cheviot or when it comes the official high-level finish over Steer Rig and White Law taking the easier "bad wether" option of the low route down to Halterburn and into Kirk Yetholm. Obviously I'm now keen to finish and calculate that my final day's walking will be of the order of eight or nine miles. However when I get down to Halterburn - and the track is a beautiful end to the walk the sun has burned off the cloud and mist and it's another wonderful early summer day, gosh I am lucky! I'm also a bit of a sight and guess I must be a bit smelly - you can never tell yourself can you? so I stop by the side of the Witchcleuch Burn and strip down to dry off in the hot morning sun and don a clean T shirt after a splash of water to freshen up, golly I do need a shave too. Then I give my boots a clean and head down onto the farm track that leads past the junction with St. Cuthbert's Way and into Kirk Yetholm. Done it laddie. Into the bar at the Border Hotel where I was presented with a certificate showing my time of Nine Days Seventeen Hours and Forty Minutes, quite fast. I had a few drinks to celebrate and a customer took me out of his way to help me get a bus to Berwick. But with over an hour to wait for it I hitched a lift, my luck continued I got to Berwick, to Newcastle, to Middlesbrough and home to Ingleby Barwick, Well chuffed too.Tuesday, 8 June 2010
THE CHEVIOT TO KIRK YETHOLM
Thursday 20/05/2010. Well I can't quite believe it, today I will be finishing my traverse of The Pennine Way! Yes I'm actually going to do it and it's a strange feeling for some reason! My regular time-keeping holds out and I'm making my way up Cairn Hill's rather boggy track by 7am. Unfortunately for me the clag is down, so this my final day's walking is the only day on which I have not set off in perfect conditions, but still nothing can interfere with my jovial self-assurance and I'm savouring the feeling of being a PW completer, I know, I know and I am conscious that chickens can be counted too soon. With the weather conditions I neither take the optional extension to top-out on the summit of The Cheviot or when it comes the official high-level finish over Steer Rig and White Law taking the easier "bad wether" option of the low route down to Halterburn and into Kirk Yetholm. Obviously I'm now keen to finish and calculate that my final day's walking will be of the order of eight or nine miles. However when I get down to Halterburn - and the track is a beautiful end to the walk the sun has burned off the cloud and mist and it's another wonderful early summer day, gosh I am lucky! I'm also a bit of a sight and guess I must be a bit smelly - you can never tell yourself can you? so I stop by the side of the Witchcleuch Burn and strip down to dry off in the hot morning sun and don a clean T shirt after a splash of water to freshen up, golly I do need a shave too. Then I give my boots a clean and head down onto the farm track that leads past the junction with St. Cuthbert's Way and into Kirk Yetholm. Done it laddie. Into the bar at the Border Hotel where I was presented with a certificate showing my time of Nine Days Seventeen Hours and Forty Minutes, quite fast. I had a few drinks to celebrate and a customer took me out of his way to help me get a bus to Berwick. But with over an hour to wait for it I hitched a lift, my luck continued I got to Berwick, to Newcastle, to Middlesbrough and home to Ingleby Barwick, Well chuffed too.
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