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Friday, 21 May 2021

Day 6 Rest day in Fort Augustus

I've been resting, planning and sitting out some foul weather in Fort Augustus today.

It's a pretty village centred around the flight of locks from the Caledonian Canal into Loch Ness. The number of gift and ice cream shops suggest it is usually a tourist hotspot, but not in this wintery weather.

I have abandoned the plan to return to the Great North Trail route via Spean Bridge for now, as it is very mountainous and in any case the Corror hostel is still covid-closed.

Instead I have an easy run down the canal to Fort William, and if all is well this will be followed by a steeper section on the West Highland Way to Kinlochleven.

The West Highland Way then has a short but challenging section before descending to the river Coupall and taking easy tracks via the King's House Hotel (climbers' haunt) to the Glencoe ski centre. One last tough section and it's down to a valley route through Bridge of Orchy, Tyndrum and Crianlarich, each with its own railway station should I need it.

In all it's about 110 miles from here to Crianlarich, so around three days. Then I can either go east along Glen Dochart to pick up my original route, or carry on down to Loch Lomond.

The weather is set to stay cold and showery - is summer cancelled this year? At least I should have a following wind for a while.

Miles today: 0. Total so far: 265.
Feet climbed today: 0 Total so far: 20430.

1 comment:

  1. Well done people are reading the blog , keep up the good work !!!

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