The Final Day 17 Trows -Kirk Yetholm

We start the day we get the shuttle service to transport us to where we left the walk yesterday,

 we then have the long long walk up to the Pennine way to rejoin  at Windy Gayle, even the cows have woolly coats here due to the weather

this time we’ve walked into the clouds and the views are non-existent.

Luckily we had seen them yesterday. We then drop down for awhile at this point we had the choice of walking, either in Scotland or England we did the first few metres on the Scottish side of the fence but  looking over the fence we could see there was  slabs instead of big so climbed over the fence. We follow the fence for most of the day England on the right hand side Scotland on the left it made navigation very easy

, soon we have a long huge climb up to Kings seat and at the foot of Cheviot it seemed never-ending.  

 Once we reached this post we had the option to divert to the summit 

but with it all in total cloud and rain we took the obvious decision not to go to the summit just to return back to this point, we now have a knee crunching descent We take a short break in the Auchope refuge hut where we recharge our batteries and took lunch ready for the steepest ascent of the day up to the Schil, Kirsty signs the visitor book

we still have some nice views.

Weather today has been in and out of cloud when it’s clear it’s a beautiful route from the Schil we have a fairly mundane long downhill route

At this point the last few miles is in Scotland

eventually with reach a road there’s no point in looking beaten we just carry on walking. Eventually the village of Kirk Yetholme comes into sight and we know we are going to make it.

We hadn’t expected anyone in yet to greet us so it just added to the emotion of the incredible feeling of finishing saying not only Lucy and Shanelle, who we met is  on the walk, applauding us , but the greeting from Faith Mason and Merlin a perfect  End  to the most incredible challenge.

What a day! 

Walking into the Border Hotel they presented us with a certificate and free drink

Completing our challenge and raising the most incredible amount for charity is going to live with us for ever. We can not thank our supporters and sponsors enough. The amount raised at the time of posting was an incredible £10,689.00p

The figure keeps going up and we like to think we have helped raise awareness to Mental Illness and the charity ‘Mind’ support those in need of mental health services 

We  finished our day with a meal in the Border Hotelthanks to my Sister Deb leaving the money behind the bar❤️with the people that mean the most to us Faith, Mason, Then a brilliant evening full of laughs with two lovely people we met on the walk Lucy and Shanelle.