I’m pretty pleased with myself. I know many people have completed this walk before me and many will in the future, but as I was walking towards Fort William I decided that I was going to be proud of myself. I say of most things that anyone could do it and there’s...
I plan these walks but I seem to only plan some parts. I’m really good at sorting out my trains, booking campsites and hotels, booking time off work, and also buying new kit. I’m really good at the new kit part. The area I really lack is the route. By that I don’t...
I’ve been wondering all day how I’d start the post. Would I talk about the weather at the start, the things that upset me, the things that made me happy. It got to about 8:15pm and I decided I’d walked enough for the day and it was time to set up camp. I looked to my...
I could have stopped quite a bit sooner today. I saw a few good pitches as I was walking beside Loch Lomond and could easily have stopped. The thing is, I’d been quite lazy today. I didn’t get moving until 10am and then kept on distracting myself by things on the...
But not by me. Well not today anyway. I knew that camping around most of Loch Lomond and on Conic hill was not allowed. That was the reason I decided to book a campsite for the first night. It was also the reason why I had to cover over 23 miles today. So imagine my...
Jenny has been saying to me for the last few weeks that I should really try out my new rucksack. She said, “put some stuff in it and go for a walk”. I said, “good idea, I might”. Well I didn’t. Part of the reason was that I didn’t want to use it, find I didn’t like...
