Cheviots

Today I went on a geocaching day trip to the Cheviot Hills. 

My geocaching mate Paul did the driving and it took us around 4 hours from Cheshire. The area we walked was the most isolated spot I have been in England and took us up to the Pennine Way where it follows the England/Scotland border. We walked 9.2 miles in total. We specifically wanted to find two of the oldest geocaches in this country and we also found four others on the route. Although the weather was awful on the drive up we were very lucky on the walk itself and it only rained for about 15 minutes towards the end.

After completing the walk we drive back via two other caches we wanted to find. One was at Birdoswlad on Hadrians Wall and the other was a neolithic stone circle to the north of Penrith. The countryside we drove through was very impressive and I thought the Cheviots provided some excellent walking country. Well worth a longer stay.

Today's blip was taken along the Pennine Way section where we came across this completely unexpected sign in the middle of nowhere. I can't understand how anyone could possibly drive up here but we did comment that if we had waited until Monday we could have driven up ourselves. There was a geocache placed on this sign.

My extra photo is a panorama taken from the trig point at Windy Gyle looking towards Scotland. there was a fantastic 360 degree view from here.

I thought of calling this On The Borderline which is, of course, a brilliant book title :)