"My 500th recorded climb on Peakery. No, stop the applause now. You're too kind, really. No, really, stop. My ears are hurting.... Kind of tucked away this one within a military dominated area - they gotta play with their tanks and bombs somewhere, haven't they? Taken from road to west crossing burn, heading north away from it then south to climb it proper. Lots of liberty caps on route, yum yum. Shelter on top. Descended same route! Yeah! Did I say it was my 500th unique hill. Oh stop it, already! " — vygodski • Oct 22, 2021

"Took my daughter (6) to the top to bag her second marilyn. A little bit of wind near the top but overall nice conditions. A little bit of high cloud but clear visibility. A lovely walk." — NorthernWayfarer • Aug 29, 2017

"Nice but cold day in the valley bottom at Barrowburn but windy and a little cloudy on top of Shillhope Law and bitterly cold (-6C). Afterwards headed to Davidson's Linn via Uswayford and then up to the border ridge before returning to Barrowburn via Clennell Street, Murder Cleugh, and Barrow Law. " — NorthernWayfarer • Dec 29, 2016

"A breezy spring day, with cloud and clear spells. Left the car park at Barrowburn in the upper Coquet valley,crossed the river and headed N for half a mile, before going E up onto the col and then turning SE to walk up onto the summit. A breezy summit, where we met a group of soldiers out on a training exercise. We returned by the same route, and then crossed the valley to go up Barrow Law 419m, where we again met the soldiers. From here we headed N past, a meeting of the hunt, with their horses and quad bikes, to Murder Heugh, the site of a C17 murder, and then onto a good track NW to the base of Yarnspath Law. Here the hunt people went past on horses blowing their horn etc and approx 20 quad bikes generally creating a din. We then went up Yarnspath Law 543m, where a stray hunt dog was rooting about for its prey. On the summit we had views of all of the Cheviot Hills and beyond and noticed that the weather was improving. We descended SW, along the edge of the forest, did a river crossing and then returned to our starting point through woods and open hillside, with blue skies." — davidlong • Feb 29, 2012

"Otterburn was always that place you never wanted to go when on military exercise. It was always wet !! The area is beautiful though, and I'm glad I had the opportunity to see it, even though I was cold, wet and tired most of the time. Most of the hills in the UK I have summited, have been due to military training. Live firing ranges, signals excercise's or playing enemy for guys on courses or simulating fire fights and setting up ambushes. All great times in great areas." — HikingViking • May 10, 2004