Day 307: Kerrera
The Isle of Kerrera is only 4.7 square miles. It’s a short walk from Oban to join the queue for the 12-passenger ferry, just squeezing into the second group before a woman appears at the last moment to join her […]
Day 306: Duror to Barcaldine
We’re going on a troll hunt. Waiting for the first bus again, the same joggers pass on the promenade below. Some things change. A large man wearing bright orange overalls stands on the stony shore, screaming and shaking his fists
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Day 305: Duror to Ballachulish
I normally research cross-country routes, but today I’m a slave to the machine, blindly following a path my OS app has chosen. A well-maintained cycle path winds through the woodland into the Highland Titles Nature Reserve. The lochans are beautiful
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Day 304: Craignure to Salen
A traditional Easter Sunday breakfast should sustain me for a 17-mile hike along the “Torosay Tops” ridgeline. Due to the limited Sunday bus service, I don’t arrive at Craignure until 10:30 am. An estate road winds gently up the Torosay
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Days 302 & 303: Burg to Salen
Where did the last 12 hours go? I woke once and watched the stars and lights across the loch. Now my head throbs so badly I don’t want to move. Did I sleep too long, lie with my head down
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Day 301: The Fossil Tree
The Fossil Tree on the Isle of Mull is 50 million years old and sits at the end of a challenging coast walk in The Wilderness, wonderfully named on the OS map as part of the remote Ardmeanach peninsula. I
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Day 300: Fort William to Glenfinnan
I’m searching for the Hogwarts Express. First, I must take a small ferry across Loch Linnhe to Camusnagaul. The boat is chained and deserted. Do I have the time wrong for the first sailing? I watch the minutes tick down
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Day 299: Ben Nevis
At 1,345 metres, Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the UK. Cal and I are hiking up via the Càrn Mòr Dearg Arête, one of the finest ridge-walks in Scotland. The weather could not be better — the sun
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Days 297 & 298: Kingshouse Hotel to Corrour
Rannoch Moor, 50 square miles of boggy moorland, is said to be one of the last remaining wildernesses in Europe. Fortunately, a path runs east from the Kingshouse Hotel to Rannoch Station, where I can catch a train to Fort
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Day 296: Bidean nam Bian
Bidean nam Bian is the highest mountain in Argyll. It’s a tough seven-mile circular hike, including a second Munro, Stob Coire Sgreamhach. To add to the challenge, I must walk six miles down Glen Coe to the start and return
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