PhotoScapes

A Photographic Travel Blog by Alexander Thorsten Blumenau

In the last week of April 1997 I went on a short trip to Scotland, to finally walk the West Highland Way. This long distance path stretches about 154 km (96 miles) from a small place called Milngavie on the [...]

Day 3: Craig Royston to Inverarnan (16 km). Leaving Ben Lomond behind, on this part of the route the path never diverts far from Loch Lomond, giving many superb views onto the lake and the mountain scenery. In fact one [...]

Day 4: Inverarnan to Tyndrum (19 km). This morning I got up very early, just to find not a single cloud in the sky! This would only slowly change in the afternoon when it got quite cloudy – but without [...]

Day 5: Tyndrum to Inveroran (15 km). Again a day on old military roads, and hence easy to walk. Between Tyndrum and Bridge of Orchy the path follows more or less the West Highland Railway, which together with the two [...]

Day 6 and day 7: Inveroran to Kingshouse (16 km), and on to Kinlochleven (14 km). This day is all about crossing Rannoch Moor, one of the vastest and wildest moors in Britain. I was told with poor sight this [...]

Day 8: Kinlochleven to Fort William (24 km). Still tired from a night of drying my gear with an electric radiator at Kinlochleven, I started with a much lighter backpack than I finished with the day before. After all, during [...]