Day 13. Pennine Way. The Hadrian's Wall. Greenhead to Bellingham

[@StarsAndSolitude]

That goose also tried to beat me up! That Hadrian's wall section is iconic but it has no mercy on your legs or lungs! I did really enjoy it, had rain sweeping down the valley so it was very dynamic. I was so happy to see the pennine turn off though!

[@hikersheep]

@@StarsAndSolitude that damn duck! Lol

[@melaniegarden3416]

You are such a creative content producer! I love how you interject clips from home and past memories and .... and BOBO!

[@hikersheep]

Im glad you like! But sometimes i think it's too much... BOBO! 😄😄😄

[@999shaznay]

The lovely Helen from the Pit Stop - she's an absolute legend!

[@dougb100]

Born & raised on the northern Pennines but spent most of my life here on Vancouver Island, Canada. Thanks for the visit to my homeland.

[@hikersheep]

Even though I am originally from Indonesia, it never feel home to me like the UK. I really think I was British in my pervious life

[@fraserconnell21]

You're a sunshine smiler even if they goose attack you 😊 😊😊😮

[@hikersheep]

@@fraserconnell21 if that goose dare to attack me, he would feel my shoe and/or trekking pole on his face. So mean that goose! Lol

[@fraserconnell21]

@hikersheep a cheery step on Ms😁best of wishes and fair winds. Yessum!!! 🤲🇬🇧❤️

[@melaniegarden3416]

Awe Helen Pit Stop on wheels!!

[@andrewrawlance6651]

Hello Christina, good milage today (24) the room looks very comfortable I bet you slept well. I never tire of the way you present your video, it is as if we are with you all the way. Best Wishes. Andrew.

[@hikersheep]

@@andrewrawlance6651 thank you! :) Yes, the room was the best!! And only for £80/night. I didnt leave the room except to breakfast the 2nd day

[@thegoldenorc]

You are an inspiration. Loving your adventure. I am planning to walk the coast to coast trail next year and have started watching your first crossing. Interestingly, when you started, 10th May, I was in Winchester about to start the South Downs Way! My Mum's name was Margaret, sadly no longer with us, but it brings a smile when you call the cows 'Margaret'. Very Best Wishes for the rest of your trail. Graham (East Yorkshire)

[@hikersheep]

@@thegoldenorc Thanks for the note, Graham! My favorite name is Margaret. Im sorry about your mum. :( Awww the South Downs Way is nice! I did it in October 2022 after my 2nd C2C crossing. C2C is more special to me though cause it was my first UK trail I did. You will love it more than SDW

[@andrewbradbury8527]

You're doing extremely well ❤ You have a lot of stamina, I,m impressed xx

[@hiltopuk]

That's a long old hike! Good work, thanks for an interesting day.

[@belindaguerette4249]

You thought of me! I feel like you’ve told Hadrian’s Wall that I am coming one day 😂 I can’t wait. But I really didn’t realize it was so hilly! It looks open and like gentle rolling hills. Gotta get to working out! I just hope I won’t get BOGGED down. That looks rough. That castle was awesome, though! Sleep well, Bobo!

[@hikersheep]

Its not gentle rolling hills, girl. Its steep up and down for 10 miles straight the section I did

[@belindaguerette4249]

@ That was an excellent view of the wall, though! You did look tired at the end of that day. And you’re in much better shape than I am. I may have to find a Charles or a Margaret to drag me to camp. Time to start training harder!

[@hikersheep]

Well...i was tired cause i did a massive 24 miles...10 miles on the Hadriians Wall, the rest on the Pennine Way. When youre doing Hadrians Wall, you can take your time and do just 10 miles a day. There are museums, castles, points of interests abd small villages to explore

[@ianharris3933]

Excellent effort and great determination. Hope you had a relaxing evening and recharged your body for the next day. Thank goodness not all trails are as boggy as the Pennine way, but the Cape wrath trail has its moments 😅

[@dreamcatcherga]

Such a beautiful, very long, rock wall. It fascinates me how these exist everywhere . Wonder if there were fairies in that Forrest ? CARPE DIEM

[@jason-lees]

There is a bothy in the woods a few miles after Hadrian's Wall. I slept there when I did the PW and met a guy from the German Army on down time doing the Way too. We swapped beer for whisky and had a good chat through the evening - all part of the experience. That 24 miles was an amazing shift 💪. Keep on keeping on!

[@hikersheep]

@@jason-lees really? I think I saw it but I cant remember exactlywhere. Its not nentioned anywhere in the book or on the map?

[@jason-lees]

The bothy is at Houghtongreen just beyond the wall through the forest. I hung my food from the rafters but a mouse still managed to eat through my rucksack side pocket due to a forgotten chocolate wrapper from an earlier snack 😭!

[@phil.clarke]

Hadrian's Wall looks awesome.

[@dw1208]

Hi Christina I was at thirwall castle just last week and stayed in a very nice youth hostel called the sill, it has private rooms with shower and toilet and communal rooms, kitchen,lounge room and a pub next door. It is modern and very nice so if you intend doing hadrians wall it is a good place to rest up, oh and it also does breakfast and evening meals.👍 all the best on your trail david

[@trooperwolfie]

That field near shitlington crags/mast was the scene of my first cow attack lol, luckily I had fell running shoes on. A light brown cow charged at me and I ran like hell down hill (the opposite way you were travelling) and vaulted the stream at the bottom...as I turned round, the cow went head over hooves down the slope....I nearly pooped my pants 🤣

[@Nate1975]

Scary, cows are very unpredictable. I would avoid

[@hikersheep]

@@trooperwolfie what?? The cow fell over?? Lol

[@trooperwolfie]

@hikersheep lol, yeah, it did a cartwheel down the slope....right towards me 😬🤣

[@trooperwolfie]

@@Nate1975 indeed, I was charged at 3 times that day, my GPS said I'd walked 34 miles, I spent most of the day taking detours to avoid the cows on the actual PW path. I fell asleep and collapsed in my steak and ale pie that evening, I burned my nose and lips in hot mash and gravy, a fellow diner in the pub (in greenhead) thought I'd died 🤣

[@Nate1975]

@😀 oh dear. Yes, I live next to the farm so know about it. When roam like this free as well always best to avoid. Bulls are even more dangerous and when babies are around with mums

[@sydaitge4577]

Tough Day; Good Job Sheep.

[@user-TonyUK]

Yours is the First Pennine Way Hike I have watch since the idiots chopped down the Scyamore tree at Scyamore Gap last year. It does not look the same as I remember it and that saddens me. The Tree was there for hundreds of year and was even in the Kevin Costner film Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. Now you get the chance to walk through some pleasant Woodland (even if it is a man made Forrest.

[@NeilUpfold]

If you would like a suggestion for your quest to complete all of the UK's trails, you could combine The Shipwrights Way and North Downs Way. The Shipwrights goes from Portsmouth to the village of Bentley (50 miles) and The North Downs Way goes from Farnham to Dover (153 miles) Farnham and Bentley are only a few miles apart and are connected by train or footpaths.

[@hikersheep]

@@NeilUpfold oh! Never heard of the Shipwrights Way. Thank you for the suggestion. I do like Dover Castle i went there 2017. So this is a great suggestion

[@NeilUpfold]

@hikersheep I know of the Shipwrights Way because it passes through the town where we live and it was only established within the last decade or so. It reflects the link between the oak trees from Alice Holt forest at Bentley that were used for shipbuilding during Tudor times at Portsmouth. It's only a short distance to link up with the North Downs Way so you can do Dover to Portsmouth or vice versa.

[@jeffreyyates1044]

That looked a hard days hike 21 long miles

[@user-TonyUK]

The reason for the fireworks is because every November 5th we Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night, Guy Fawkes tried and failed to Blow Up Parliment in London in the late 1600s. Tony in Essex

[@toska6939]

Most Brits - 'Please don't charge cows. I come in peace. No aggro, just let me pass. Please.' Christina - 'Helloooo! Anyone want some love?' ❤️

[@hikersheep]

@@toska6939 lololol

[@colinpearce7079]

Hi Christina,I’m following your journey every step of the way,did you see what was left of Sycamore gap after the mindless act of vandalism to cut it down,looking forward to next section & can’t wait for you to get to Kirk Yetholm,all the best Colin P,

[@hikersheep]

@@colinpearce7079 hi Colin. Thank you for following. Yes, i took a picture of it. I almost missed it.

[@howardmcknight9773]

When you get to Kirk Yetholm Christina don't forget to get your free half pint at the Border Hotel and if you want a certificate I think they do them to but you might have to pay for that, enjoy the finish.

[@RegEdmunds]

I have learned not to be that confident around UK cows. And I have never known 'the garden' area to be dry. I've met the pitstop twice, a lovely person.

[@howardmcknight9773]

A long and tiring day Christina, doing the ups and downs along Hadrians Wall at the beginning of the day must have took it out of you and then still had to put the mileage in to Bellingham, i think that is the first day of your walk when you have finished your day in complete darkness, i bet you were relieved when you arrived at your B&B.

[@hikersheep]

@@howardmcknight9773 yes it was tiring the first 10 miles!! Omg and I didnt eat breakfast much. I finished in complete darkness the first day too in Crowden cause I started at 11.30 am

[@treklinda1309]

Do you watch Haze Outdoors? I bet you do 😀

[@hikersheep]

@@treklinda1309 sometimes. :) But I found him ramble too much. Hehe

[@Nate1975]

Careful with cows, Christina. They can charge recommend No pat pat

[@hikersheep]

I pet pet one the other day. Cows love me or afraid of me. :)

[@Nate1975]

@ be careful, they r unpredictable 😀 there r accidents every day in the UK with cows 💪

[@hikersheep]

@Nate1975 i know. Im always careful and read the animal before i pet pet. I wouldnt pet that duck in the video

[@Nate1975]

@ geese can be vicious yes

[@laniarisca3450]

​@@hikersheep..be careful..don't be pat2 the cows...

[@stuartcalow737]

18 th century music as background to Hadrian's Wall and Norman Ruins is so wrong

[@hikersheep]

@@stuartcalow737 yea but i cant find music from 50 AD so thats the closest one. My videos are for entertainment anyway, not a history lesson. :) Thanks you so much for watching

[@crashbox7130]

I genuinely suffer from bovinophobia, so won't go into a field or area with cows in.

[@hikersheep]

@@crashbox7130 I have snake phobia!! They're terrifying to me. 😵‍💫

[@crashbox7130]

@@hikersheep Me too, though thankfully we don't have any 'dangerous' snakes in the UK unless you call an Adder dangerous. They certainly have a painful venom, though it's rarely fatal.

[@ianmarshall8452]

Surprised you took the gin

[@hikersheep]

Why? Do i not look like a gin drinker? It was in the hiker box

[@mikeb7117]

Do you know Bobo?!

[@hikersheep]

@@mikeb7117 haha. Yes I do!! Do you??

[@earthsanctuaryvideos]

We hiked the Pennine Way in 2016 - kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIukqpiMpLx1fc0si=wMvSd0q9RegVk2hN I love your video technique and would like to try it. Would you please be kind enough to share your GoPro, gimbal, software set-up? Best wishes and safe walking! Chuck

[@hikersheep]

Thanks. I dont have any special equipment. Just the Gopro and the short stick that came with it. Every night, i transfer the files wirelessly to my phone and start editing using InShot app. Thats all. No gimbal or anything. I wish I could have a longer tripod...but I dont want to carry it. So the short stick will have to do

[@colinyoung4841]

Why do you call cows...... MARGARET? 😅😅😅

[@treklinda1309]

I love that.. Margaret and Charles. I call all sheeps Eric 😅

[@hikersheep]

@@colinyoung4841 because thats their names! I asked them! Lol

[@thegeordiefellwalker8878]

pleased you met Helen she's so kind.i always enjoy my little chat's with her when i call into the pitstop 🫖👍thats a good 24 mile day 💪

[@hikersheep]

@@thegeordiefellwalker8878 when i do the PW again, it will be in the spring time with more daylight so I have time to stop at every tuck shops