Spine Challenger - North Road Book POI
My own personal, unofficial course notes. Double check they are accurate before you use them.
Honeystead Farm, shop in Bellingham.
Stage 1: Start Hawes to CP1 Middleton in Teesdale 53.5km ↑1476 ↓1494m
Segment 1a: Start to Thwaite 15.5km ↑514↓484m
- 10km Great Shunner Fell Trig
- 15km Thwaite (cafe)
Segment 1b: Thwaite to Tan Hill Inn Distance 10.9km ↑480↓241m
Cafe just off route in Keld
- 20km Footbridge by Keld
- 26km Tan Hill Inn, pub food and Safety Team
Segment 1c: Tan Hill Inn to A66 Distance 10.2km ↑73↓238m
- 3km of boggyness until you hit tracks
- 34km Sleightholme Farm
- 37km Subway under A66
Segment 1d: A66 to Middleton Distance 16.6km ↑535↓413m
- 39km Cross Footbridge and dirt road
- 43km Blackton Reservoir
- 49km B6276 Road Crossing
- 54km Middleton Checkpoint (cut-off 24hrs - 8AM Monday)
- Shop, cafe and pub in Middleton
Stage 2: Middleton in Teesdale to CP2 Alston
Distance: 63.5km ↑1664↓1623m
Segment 2a: Middleton to Cauldrons Snout
Distance 18.2km ↑359↓145m
Segment 2b: Cauldrons Snout to Dufton
Distance 14.0km ↑552↓274m No Tracker coverage in this section, DO NOT BIVVY
Post Box pantry in Dufton usually stays open for Spine Racers
Dufton Monitoring station
Segment 2c: Dufton to Gregs Hut
Segment 2d: Gregs Hut to Alston
- Shop in Alston
- Alston CP (cut off 50hrs - 10AM Tuesday)
Stage 3: Alston to Bellingham CP3
Distance: 59.8km ↑1294↓1450m
Segment 3a: Alston to Lambly A689
16.2km ↑348↓431m
Slaggyford tap on the wall and mythical trail angel
Segment 3b: Lambly A689 to King Arthurs Well
13.4km ↑317↓289m
- 16km Lambly A689
- 19km Greenriggs road crossing
- 26km Greenhead cross railway
- Greenhead, tea room and toilets if you go off route into town
Segment 3c: King Arthurs Well to Houghtongreen
14.4km ↑326↓364m
- 30km King Arthurs Well Half way!
- 33km Parking lot with toilets
- 41km Cuddys Crag leave Hadrians Wall
Segment 3d: Houghtongreen to Bellingham
15.8km ↑409↓266m
- 44km Houghtongreen Woods/Crag
- 52km Horneystead Farm Bellingham (room in an outhouse open 24/7 for Pennine Way walkers running water, coffee, snacks. The tap water has bits in it but there’s a kettle to boil it.
- 60km Bellingham CP (cut-off 76hrs Wednesday 12:00pm noon)
Stage 4: Bellingham to Finish Kirk Yetholm
- Shop in Bellingham
Distance: Arwen Diversion 41.4km ↑1405↓1294m Bus from Bellingham CP to Cottonsburnhopefoot make your way north along Cottonshope Rd turning off grid NT783 038 to rejoin the Pennine Way at NT773 041
Segment 4a: Cottonsburnhopefoot to Roman Camps
10.7km ↑376↓190m
Segment 4b: Roman Camps to Windy Gyle
12.3km ↑421↓217m
Segment 4c: Windy Gyle to Hut 2
8.47km ↑267↓392m
Segment 4d: Hut 2 to Finish Kirk Yetholm
11.0km ↑238↓605m
- Kirk Yetholm (cut-off 107hrs Thursday 8pm)