Distance

12.1 km total

Elevation

229 m start

594 m max

Vertical

516 m gain

Time

no info yet

After bagging Broadhope Hill and Preston Hill, dropped down to Goldscleugh to attempt the Cheviot from a route not very often tackled. We missed the path to the top and ended up trying to heather bash straight up in thigh high heather. The heather forced us off course and eventually we ended up on a spur of the Cheviot known as Woolhope Crag. A cloud bank had descended and made navigation tricky. The heather bashing had tired us and with the fog, we chose to abandon the attempt to the summit and skirted one of Lambden Burn's tributaries to the col between the Cheviot and Scald Hill. Before ascending Scald Hill and returning to the cars on the other side.

Obstacles

weather, heather bashing

Key gear

trekking poles

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