Day !6. Wed 27th June 2012. Byrness to Russell's Cairn.15 miles. Weather. Overcast to start. A few spits and spots of rain at 11.00. Nothing to require waterproofs. Brightening up and by 2.00 the sun deigned to make a brief appearance. Quite warm with good visibility. Well we've done the walk and landed up exactly where we started. We set off with quite a steep climb out of Byrness, initially through forest. Gained considerable height then walked up and down over several grass or heather covered hills. The path followed a fence which marks the boundary between England and Scotland and on occason, we ventured across into Salmond's territory. He didn't seem to mind. Had Lunch in a strategically placed bothy. Going today was very similar to previous days, boggy in places, firm in others and some over flagstones. When we reached Russell's Cairn, we diverted off the PW to Trows Farm, where our landlady from yesterday was waiting, in a 4X4, to take us back to
Byrness. She will deliver
us back to the farm in the morning when we can complete our expedition at Kirk Yetholm. Byrness to KY is 28 miles so we decided to split it into 2 days and the people at Byrness offer this pickup service. It meant that today's rucksacks were extraordinarily light, just containing waterproofs and our lunch.
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