Thanks all for the replies.
@Pale Rider Ah I must have misread that link as a cycle route. Thanks.
@Lookrider That info is smashing. I was a bit put out by the sustrans route tbh, it rarely goes along the wall route. I'll check out your suggestions.
Slighyl unrelated
@Lookrider, but we are maybe looking at extending part of it and going on somemore exciting (possibly?) trails. I've seen this route
https://www.cyclinguk.org/route/great-north-trail-part-3-north-pennines-and-kielder-forest and thinking of joining it at Haltwhistle and taking it up to Kielder. Do you know if this is a good path to take?
I have ridden several times and in different parts of WARK forest
Which is slightly north of halty
The path out of halty north along the river is nice and you pass the remains of an old water mill I think from the industrial times ...you need to stock up on supplies and water as once you leave halty you are in barren land with no supplies available until kielder village which has one pub and no shops as such ( there is life at stonehaugh but you turn north west before there)
Just after you cross the miltary rd theres a decent qwuary at cawfiekds and views of the roman wall both east and west ..you could walk ( no riding ) east along the wall to sycamore gap where the tree known as robin hood is .
You will know the tree as it will be mobbed with tourists
The rd north is very qiet with a few bumps here n thete fir maybe 1 mile then you hit wark forest and are on mtb gravel/cinder paths .for Miles .I only know the trax until you hit wygate bridge
You turn off north west thete towards kielder ...there is a mountain bothie shepherd hut just on the trax there whick will be hopefully open by july
After that until kielder I dont know the trax
I was aware of this route before the pandemic and had it on a to do list
Staying in a kielder shepherd hut then riding home
You have to be aware that there is no reliable transport into kielder
Haltwhistke will be the nearest train station kielder really is barren and other than tbe village castle and lake that is the only place you are likely to see anybody
Theres a shepherd hut north of falstone that was lost in the forest for many years ...it was only discovered whilst those trees were harvested
Theres a fair bit activity around the lake ..there the observatory ..osprey watch and details about the village that lays at the bottom of the resoirvour after they purposely flooded it ...all very Interesting