Trails Walked
Distance Covered
Steps
Calories Burnt
Total ascent
Ferry Crossings
Days walking
Wild camps
South West Coastal Path - The Return
But this time hiking it all in one go
Trail Length
Planned Start
West Highland Way in Winter
My attempt to walk the West Highland Way in November 2024 in freezing temperatures
Coast to Coast
Walking Alfred Wainwright’s coast to coast footpath in April 2023
South West Coastal Path
Walking the entire 640 miles of the South West Coastal Path split into three segments during September 2023 and June 2024
Highland Hiking
Combining the West Highland Way, a summit of Ben Nevis, and the Great Glen Way into a single adventure
I’m a time traveller
If I’ve got the physics correct, there is a chance I’ve got them wrong, as we go faster, time slows down. This means the astronauts on the international space station are aging slightly slower than the rest of us down here on earth. There’s not a lot in it, I think...
It was easier on a boat
It’s been an interesting day today. At some points it felt like things were going wrong and it became quite stressful and difficult, and other times, thankfully the majority, it was really fun although often quite challenging. When we travelled on Loch Ness on the...
A significant diversion
It appears that I wasn’t properly listening to the man I met at the bottom of the locks on the Caledonian Canal yesterday. He was telling me about part of the route that diverts on the other side of a loch and was telling me it was quite a pain and that it was closed...
Wasn’t expecting much
The Great Glenn Way I think is often considered the poor relation of the West Highland Way. I don’t think that’s official in any way but it’s just the impression I get when speaking to people. This had formed a vision in my mind of what to expect so I wasn’t really...
A good day off
I really didn’t think that this part of the trip was going to happen. The weather all over the UK had been really bad leading up to my departure date, so even though I was hoping for at least some clear sky, the idea that a climb of Ben Nevis would be possible seem...
A nice little stroll
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...
Yay – the Garmin was not a waste of money
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...
Post delayed
I’m really sorry but due to poor mobile signal I’ve not been able to upload the post for yesterday’s walk. I’ll do it as soon as 4G returns. Thanks - Ben
Worth the effort
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...
Future Ben should be grateful
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...
Rules are there to be broken
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...
She told me so
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...