The morning of Sunday 10th June 2007 began with a pleasant youth hostel breakfast of croissants, toast, tea, cereal and Swiss cheese, before we headed a short distance back towards Alston. We parked at the cattle grid on the county boundary and set off up the moorland. We followed the shooting boxes rather than the fence, and then diverted more to the left to try and pick out the firmer underfoot walking.

       

Heading for the true summit, I suddenly found myself seemingly on a thin surface of peat that was shaking for ten feet in all directions, apparently about to break and swallow me whole. I got off there quickly! We set up for 2m SSB in the hope of working lots of Backpackers Contest stations, but activity seemed fairly low. We gave it 40 minutes or so, then descended on a fairly direct line back to the car, thinking of getting a second summit in for the day - Nine Standards Rigg G/NP-018.

Many thanks to the following stations, all worked on 2m SSB with 5 watts, except the final contact which was on 2m FM: