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PLANNING YOUR WALK

When to Walk

Spring can be a splendid time to walk the Reivers Way, when the countryside is bursting with new life. Lambs are suckling in the lower pastures, flowers rise from fields and roadside verges, and migrating birds arrive and sort out their nesting sites.

Walking in the winter months means limited daylight, but good progress is possible when wet ground freezes

The peak summer period offers the longest daylight hours and possibly the best weather. Lowland hayfields are mown to stubble, while heather moorlands turn purple and the bracken lies deep on the hillsides. Some heather moorland might be used for grouse shooting. Accommodation in popular places might be fully booked, but apart from that all services should be in full swing and ferries will be running to the Farne Islands.

Autumn is a time for harvesting crops, and the daylight hours begin to shorten, with the possibility of cooler and wetter weather.