9:20 - Setting out from South
View Bed & Breakfast (Map)
9:30 - Remains of Turret 52A (Map)
The Vallum
Walking East beside the Vallum (Map)
Looking North the view shows how well placed the wall was for keeping an eye
on marauding Scots (Map)
Heading into Birdoswald fort (Map)
Birdoswald fort (Map)
10:50 - Break at Birdoswald fort
Leaving the path of the road and following the wall cross country (Map)
11:20 - Remains of the East side of Willowford Bridge (Map)
Looking back from close to Gilsland (Map)
11:45 - Milecastle 48 near Gilsland (Map)
12:20 - Looking East from near Green Croft the path of the wall can be seen
in the centre rising up Dintley hill (Map)
13:05 - Thirlwall Castle (Map)
13:20 - Looking back (West) down from the top of Dintley hill (Map)
Walltown Crags - first sighting of the up and downs to come (Map)
13:50 - On top of Walltown Crags (Map)
Looking East along the crags
14:10 - Mobile phone reception is possible even up here!
14:30 - The crags in the distance show the path to come... (Map)
15:15 - A little closer to Cawfield crags (Map)
15:30 - Finally almost at Cawfield crags (Map)
16:55 - Looking back after a long climb up Cawfield crags (Map)
The path to come as it goes down peel crags, past Steel Rigg and over Highshield
crags
17:20 - 345 metres up on top of Windshields crags (Map)
18:15 - Milecastle 39 between Peel crags and Highshield crags (Map)
19:20 - The wall is not so straight over the crags!
That day we finished at about 20:30 (the faster wakers got in about 18:30). A late finish and ideally we should have started out earlier than 9:20. The walk is not so bad for the first half but over the crags it is very slow going as it is all up and down.