25.8km/16 miles/8 hours
Ascent 707m/2139ft
THE CHEVIOTS, once bitterly fought over and strategically important for holding more habitable lands beyond, are now ignored by all but a few lovers of lonely hills, delivering harmony in abundance.
Our way follows the border between these once warring lands. Follow the dashing Rowhope Burn to the south ridge of Windy Gyle, whose summit is the route’s early high. The ridge stretches north-east, climbing further to The Cheviot, but this
