Day 13 - Osmotherley to Chop Gate (12.7 miles)

And so today we set off at 9.40am leaving the B&B (rated as a 6/10) after a very disapointing breakfast and headed up the hill out of Osmotherley.  after a short but steep climb we reached the brow and we had our first sighting of the North Sea over Teeside.

We headed over the moors and the heather is in full bloom.  The colours are fantastic.

We headed along the Cleveland Way toward Live Moor which we reached at 12.00, with fantastic views of Whorl Hill.


From here we had great views of Carlton Bank, where we also stopped for lunch at 12.30pm.

At Carlton bank the views were fantastic of the sea and Roseberry Topping, however they were all spoiled by the industrial wasteland of Teesside

We carried on along the Cleveland Way reaching the Wain Stones at 3.00pm, from here we turned left and headed across Cold Moor towards Chop Gate ( Choppy Hat as the locals call it)

As we crossed Cold Moor we saw a number of Grouse unfortunately we didn’t have any guns with us!

Whilst Morris inspected the heather the boys decided to have a rest !

Just as we were arriving in Choppy hat James realised he had lost his telephone on top of the moors where he had been resting earlier – so he and Morris set off to find it

The rest of the party carried on and arrived at the Buck inn at 4.07 ! Morris and James arrived at 4.50 with the recovered telephone ( Morris was very happy with the extra exercise ! )