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Nice blog write-up and pictures Duane. I have saved "Mac's Adventures" to my bookmarks for potential future daydreaming possibilities since you have spoken so highly of them.In 2018, a year after I walked the Camino Frances, I decided to walk the West Highland Way in Scotland. I finally got around to doing a post about it on my blog. If anyone is interested about that hike and wants to check it out, here it is.
https://www.duanestorey.com/hiking/walking-the-west-highland-way-in-scotland/
Yah they have been great both times I have used them. I'll definitely use them again when the time comes in the future.Nice blog write-up and pictures Duane. I have saved "Mac's Adventures" to my bookmarks for potential future daydreaming possibilities since you have spoken so highly of them.
Two of my best friends from college and their wives walked it in 2019. They loved it and had a great time. I will check out your blog. Thanks for sharing. I will also send them the link to help them relive their great memories.In 2018, a year after I walked the Camino Frances, I decided to walk the West Highland Way in Scotland. I finally got around to doing a post about it on my blog. If anyone is interested about that hike and wants to check it out, here it is.
https://www.duanestorey.com/hiking/walking-the-west-highland-way-in-scotland/
Thanks for posting this Duane, nice write-up and pics! I have plans to walk the GGW this summer if conditions permit.
We will be spending some extra time in Scotland to do some more sightseeing, so if the weather is good I would like to try hiking up Ben Nevius.
Great blog, thanks! I'm really keen to walk the WHW some day also. As I'm mostly a solo hiker I found the single supplements that Macs Adventures ask is quite high so hopefully I can organise it myself and walk no more than 17-20kms per day.In 2018, a year after I walked the Camino Frances, I decided to walk the West Highland Way in Scotland. I finally got around to doing a post about it on my blog. If anyone is interested about that hike and wants to check it out, here it is.
https://www.duanestorey.com/hiking/walking-the-west-highland-way-in-scotland/
I had a wonderful roadtrip in Scotland in August/Sept 2019 and was amazed not to find even one midge along the way thank goodness. However, a lady in one YHA gave me her Avon midge spray in case, so I'll take it along when I return to explore some more. I love Scotland and its stunning scenery and hikes.Midges are indeed horrible wee beasties best avoided. But they’re not around all year and there’s a useful website at: smidgeup.com that comes online in spring and is map based showing how good (or bad!) the midges are in a particular area.
It’s on a scale of 1-5 (eg 4 = ‘that’s no mist it’s midges!)
Great hike but choose your time is the recommendation.
Really? I never found that. I actually did the math on one trip and thought it was really reasonable. Considering they handle all the logistics and also do baggage transfer daily, I thought it was great value myself.Great blog, thanks! I'm really keen to walk the WHW some day also. As I'm mostly a solo hiker I found the single supplements that Macs Adventures ask is quite high so hopefully I can organise it myself and walk no more than 17-20kms per day.
The said spray is used by the Royal Marines (and me), stings like hell when it gets in the eyes!However, a lady in one YHA gave me her Avon midge spray
In 2018, a year after I walked the Camino Frances, I decided to walk the West Highland Way in Scotland. I finally got around to doing a post about it on my blog. If anyone is interested about that hike and wants to check it out, here it is.
https://www.duanestorey.com/hiking/walking-the-west-highland-way-in-scotland/
Thank you. I have been looking at doing the Clyde Walkway to WHW to Great Glen Way.In 2018, a year after I walked the Camino Frances, I decided to walk the West Highland Way in Scotland. I finally got around to doing a post about it on my blog. If anyone is interested about that hike and wants to check it out, here it is.
https://www.duanestorey.com/hiking/walking-the-west-highland-way-in-scotland/
I have walked the Camino de Santiago twice and twice also for the West Highland Way. Your blog brought back many happy memories. Always remember meeting an elderly Irish man tending the garden at the Inn at Inveroran, he asked where we were heading, we said up to Fort William via Rannoch Moor and Glencoe. His response ‘Nothing to see up there only mountains and lochs!’, we fell about laughing. Once again thanks for a lovely trip down memory lane.In 2018, a year after I walked the Camino Frances, I decided to walk the West Highland Way in Scotland. I finally got around to doing a post about it on my blog. If anyone is interested about that hike and wants to check it out, here it is.
https://www.duanestorey.com/hiking/walking-the-west-highland-way-in-scotland/
Would you mind sharing what your average daily cost was on the WHW.
I thoroughly enjoyed your write-up Duane and pretended I was walking it with you! Because of your opinion I would choose the WHW if ever allowed to fly out of the US again and would consider it an add-on to a trip hiking in England.
Stunning. Adding to my list of dreams. Thanks for the details!In 2018, a year after I walked the Camino Frances, I decided to walk the West Highland Way in Scotland. I finally got around to doing a post about it on my blog. If anyone is interested about that hike and wants to check it out, here it is.
https://www.duanestorey.com/hiking/walking-the-west-highland-way-in-scotland/
Dromnadrochit. Can you hear the music in it? Beautiful!Thanks Duane, for your two blogs on the WHW and GGW. They brought back many wonderful memories of our walking both walks. We walked the WHW in October, 2015 and the GGW in May, 2019. We loved both walks, enjoyed the magnificent scenery and found a 'camino' family while walking the GGW, two ladies from BC, Canada and two gentlemen from the UK and had a few pleasant evenings in their company and while walking. I(Anne) am from Scotland, so I was very pleased to be back walking there.
View attachment 93516A great days walk from Invermoriston to Drumnadrochit on the GGW, looking back to where we had come from through this viewcatcher sculpture with views back down the Great Glen.
We walked the WHW using the company Absolute Escapes, which was good but organised the GGW all ourselves, which worked out very well. In fact we think we stayed in the same B & B you did Duane in Spean
Bridge! This is the garden of the B & B.
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I'm from BC, Canada (a little town called Chilliwack, although I did all my schooling in Vancouver) - so I'm glad you met some friendly people from my home province to walk with!Thanks Duane, for your two blogs on the WHW and GGW. They brought back many wonderful memories of our walking both walks. We walked the WHW in October, 2015 and the GGW in May, 2019. We loved both walks, enjoyed the magnificent scenery and found a 'camino' family while walking the GGW, two ladies from BC, Canada and two gentlemen from the UK and had a few pleasant evenings in their company and while walking. I(Anne) am from Scotland, so I was very pleased to be back walking there.
Thanks for bringing back memories of my 2004 WHW pilgrimage!In 2018, a year after I walked the Camino Frances, I decided to walk the West Highland Way in Scotland. I finally got around to doing a post about it on my blog. If anyone is interested about that hike and wants to check it out, here it is.
https://www.duanestorey.com/hiking/walking-the-west-highland-way-in-scotland/
Loved your post and the awesome photos! I along with another 16 people are scheduled to hike the West Highland Way starting the first of July, 2022 and hopefully will be able to do it but all will depend on COVID (was scheduled to do the hike July 2021 but had to cancel due to COVID restrictions). Out of the group there are 5 of us that will continue on and hike the Great Glen Way. I also had contacted Mac's Adventure to inquire about the hike but their itinerary did not work for us so I contacted another company who were able to use the itinerary I had put together and booked all our accommodations for us plus provide luggage transfer. I also have walked the Camino Frances and Camino Portugal so very excited to hiking the West Highland Way and Great Glen Way.In 2018, a year after I walked the Camino Frances, I decided to walk the West Highland Way in Scotland. I finally got around to doing a post about it on my blog. If anyone is interested about that hike and wants to check it out, here it is.
https://www.duanestorey.com/hiking/walking-the-west-highland-way-in-scotland/
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