Keppoch looks innocuous. There are no steep hillsides to climb, no crags to avoid, no rivers to ford and yet there are reports of paths that disappear into the woods, barbed wire fences and hostile farmers. I’m wary. The road […]
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Neil Ansell explored North Morar in The Last Wilderness, wandering where his curiosity took him. I want to do something similar. A trail runs north from Bracorina on the shore of Loch Morar across the hills to Stoul on Loch
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A new year and the train rattles north through unfamiliar landscapes: wet, grey, rivers in spate, snow on the mountain tops, and stags watching from hillcrests. A handful of passengers burrow under layers and woollen hats in the cold carriages.
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