Day 74, Crask Inn to Altnaharra.
We left Crask in beautiful sunshine this morning after a lovely peaceful time in the remote Inn. It had been very special to stay in such an isolated area. Our route today continued along the ever quiet A836. We climbed uphill away from Crask and soon came to the new Creag Riabhach wind farm that […]
Day 73, Lairg to Crask Inn.
Today we have followed the A836 all day, as can be seen from the pictures this is an extremely quiet road! It has passed through open land for our entire route and mainly runs parallel to Strath Tirry. The map shows much forestry land but most of this had been felled. The views have been […]
Day 72, Bonar Bridge to Lairg.
We headed out this morning from Bonar Bridge along a quiet A road. This ran right alongside the beautiful Kyle of Sutherland giving us amazing early morning views. From here we took an incredibly small single track road which had passing places all along and had very few cars but lots of cyclists. This ran […]
Day 71, Alness to Bonar Bridge.
So, we decided to use our rest day yesterday wisely and walked six miles of today’s route as far as Strath Rory! This meant we only had fourteen miles to do today. This section has seen a return to forestry areas with vast swathes of trees on the hillsides. We’ve walked on roads that have […]
Day 69, Muir of Ord to Alness.
A very different day today from the past weeks on well known Highland trails. From now on we are following our own route as we head ever further North! Today started with a short walk along an A road with plenty of wide verges. This took us over The River Conan where we saw Salmon […]
Day 68, Drumnadrochit to Muir of Ord.
A different start to today with a two mile road walk on pavements out of Drumnadrochit and sometimes close to Loch Ness. It was lucky we managed to get a few views of the loch at this point as the rain soon appeared. We headed back up onto The Great Glen Way with lovely […]
Day 67, Invermoriston to Drumnadrochit.
As has become a regular start to recent days, this morning began with a very steep climb. This time we saw lots of clouds and mist and also a stunning view of Loch Ness! We quickly climbed to 1,000ft on good forest tracks and footpaths with more views of the loch. The views of […]
Day 66, Invergarry to Invermoriston.
We started with another steep narrow path this morning taking us up to join another woodland track. We travelled past the remainder of Loch Oich on this lovely wide track. After this we once again joined the Caledonian Canal, this time with a fantastic footpath. Unusually the path goes onto a thin strip of land […]
Day 65, Clunes to Invergarry.
We said goodbye to Gwyneth and Andy this morning and headed back to Loch Lochy. Thank you so much for a wonderful time, it’s been great to catch up. Since we’ve been in the Fort William area we’ve seen lots of logging lorries. Today we found out where some of them were coming from! As […]
Day 64 revisited. Fort William to Clunes.
Today we started our next trail, The Great Glen Way. We headed off from Fort William and near the start of the walk saw a sign advising equestrians to dismount before crossing the bridge. In all the miles we’ve walked this is the first time we have seen a sign like this, clearly we needed […]