Pennine Way in Pictures, Part 1

Leaving Kirk Yetholm.  I hope the car will still be there when i get back!



Into the Cheviots.  Cold wind-chill...could feel my face freezing up at times.
 

First Night.  Lil nippy.
 

Western shoulder of the Cheviot.
 

Windy Gyle.
 

Mozie Law. 



Sprinkling of snow overnight with heavy winds.  Trailstar did well. 



Over the moorland hills to Byrness, where i stayed at the Forest View Walker's Inn.  The owners were just the best...letting me stay in their bunkhouse out of season, getting it warm for me, and cooking me a lasagne.
 

Graveyard at Byrness.



Redesdale.

Endless forestry track through Redesdale Forest.

How i felt after that track.



Heading up Whitley Pike.  First navigation error of the walk happened soon after this was taken.



Camped out at quarry near Abbey Rigg.

 

Bellingham.  Time to buy some supplies.
 

Bridge over the North Tyne at Bellingham.  Had a cuppa here.
 

Warks Burn.
 

Camped out on Ground Rigg.
 

Boggy forestry paths.
 

Nice lil place for a wildcamp.
 

Haughton Common.
 

A very rare lunch stop in Wark Forest.
 

Rapishaw Gap from below.  The Pennine Way joins Hadrian's Wall here.
 

Rapishaw Gap from above.
 

Crag Lough.
 

Sycamore Gap.
 

Ah...there's that most photographed tree in Britain.
 

...cough.



Remains of a Milecastle.
 

Camped out on Green Slack, the highest point on Hadrian's Wall.
 

Night gathers, and now my watch begins...
 

Soon as i get in me shelter, first thing i do is get me boots and socks off, and apply some Badger Balm.
 

Snow and accidentally shat me long-johns.  Didn't get out in time...
 

Caw Gap.
 

View from Walltown Crags.  Greenhead not far away now, where i stayed at the Greenhead Hotel.  After a few nights in the field... hotels are like heaven.  Soooo good.