West Highland Way - Ged and Lynne 2011

Ged and Lynne prepare for and walk (hopefully) the West Highland Way long distance footpath. Our route will be approx 96 miles over 8 days. We will be staying in B&Bs and making use of a Luggage transfer agency so only carrying day sacks during the walk.
The WHW goes from Milgavie, just north of Glasgow to Fort William.
PS: We did it. Scroll down to April on right hand menu to find our day by day.
Also see http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1082589 for GPS track

Sunday 10 April 2011

Here in the Sun

Sitting in this sunny warm Sunday afternoon, we've just looked at the weather for the next 2 weeks and it's forecast to rain Every Day of the walk, with SNOW in Fort William! Basically miserable.. however, mid-range forecasts are usually wrong so here's hoping. A good reminder of warm gear and waterproofs but rather deflating
We did our last preparitory walk yesterday; 15.8 miles but with little ascent at 800ft; for those that know the area, home to The Cage at Lyme Park and back. It was very warm and showed that hot feet suffer more as mine are a little sore this morning. Anyway, 4 days to the walk so need to start getting things together.
Next blog will hopefully be from Milngavie having completed our journey up.

1 comment:

Ged i24 April 2011 at 06:27
PS: We actually had fantastic weather for all 8 days and neede sun cream on sevreral. Total daytime rain 20min on day 1. So much for mid-range waether forecasting!
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