The Great Outdoors – July 2019

Always take a map and compass with you. ©Crown copyright 2019 Ordnance Survey. Media 051/19

0 km 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16

600

400

200

0

1

2

3

4

5

1

Start/Finish

Halter Burn, parking

area on left 1.5km from

Kirk Yetholm as road

meets stream

GR: NT840276

Cross road to gate. L along field

bottom, then up W between field

and plantation to open slopes of

Staerough Hill.

(^2)
Down SE, staying R of wall.
Pass R of gorse to col, then
up through open wood and up S to
Sunnyside Hill. Stay L of wall over
Latchly Hill and down to col with
waymarked Pennine Way
alternative.
(^3)
Up SE, wide green path, to
ladder stile on ridgeline. Up
Pennine Way path to The Schil.
(^4)
Back down Pennine Way to
ladder stile, but stay R of
wall to cross Black Hag and rejoin
The Schil
Cheviot Hills ENGLAND / SCOTLAND
16km/10 miles/6 hours
Ascent 850m/2800ft^3

THERE ARE SOME HILLS

we guidebook writers go up

just so the rest of you don’t

need to. Looked at across

the Bowmont Water, The

Curr looks pretty good:

one of those high, pointy

items that ought to have a

hill fort on top of it. Seen

from Staerough Hill, it’s

even better.

Staerough Hill? It’s a

grassy hump above Kirk

Yetholm, only 330m high

but with some strange wee

dolerite crags in the side of

it, and a half-mile of summit

ridge above the wide, wide

valley of the Tweed. And

seen from Staerough, a

whole line of enticing grassy

bumps – Sunnyside and

Wildgoose and Latchly –

high-level Pennine Way beyond.

Down long ridge of Steer Rig and

over White Law, to ladder stile on

R.

(^5)
Pennine Way N with wall to
R, 600m to signpost. Bear L,
keep 50m left of Pennine Way
track to find Stob Stones after
200m. Rejoin Pennine Way,
becoming narrow path around
flank of Green Humbleton then
down to car park.
Gradient profile Metres above sea level
Ronald
Turnbull gives
The Curr
a swerve
The Great Outdoors July 2019 89