The Glencoe ski resort ski lifts can be seen on the top right of the photo. This was taken near the end of the walk today.
A view across Rannoch Moor showing the desolate nature of the area.
A bog on Rannoch Moor.
John Muirhead and myself on the Bridge of Orchy before starting today's walk.We eventually received news from the garage that the car needs a new gear box. As the price that they have quoted is more than the car is worth it looks as though the car is a write off. We are therefore having a rest day from the walk tomorrow and travelling to Perth to hire a car and to retrieve all of the belongings in our car. We will return to Bridge of Orchy to stay tomorrow night and I will resume the walk on Thursday. Although the news about the car has not been good we are relived that the uncertainty is over and that we can continue with the venture.
Today I walked 13/14 miles from Bridge of Orchy to Kingshouse. The majority of the walk was across Rannoch Moor which is a desolate bit of land. All the life that we saw in about 10 miles of walking were a handful of meadow pipits and a few flies (but amazingly still no midges - which was just as well as I had forgotten to put my insect repellent on). the weather was again sunny but the wind helped keep the temperature down. I can't think what the Moor would be like in poor weather. There was however a feeling of being somewhere special where there is no interference from modern life.
As mentioned yesterday I walked today with John who is from Bathgate. We both agreed that it was very much for the best that we were not walking across the Moor on our own. It would have felt incredibly lonely.
All of my ailments are still behaving themselves and I felt very good walking today. This was helped by the paths mainly being of good quality and there not being too many hills to deal with.
As I am not walking tomorrow the next blog will be on Thursday when I hope to walk to about 5 miles short of Fort William and the end of theWest Highland Way.
Today's KBW goes to John for walking with me for a day and a half and for being such a wonderful character.
Today's thought is that I should have remembered to bring the list of quotes with me when I came down to the residents lounge where I can get a strong enough signal from the hotel's wifi.
Cheers
Keith
