The West Highland Way from Glasgow to Fort William is one of the finest UK long distance paths, but it runs close to a busy main road and avoids the mountain tops. NOT The West Highland Way offers mountain alternatives to all but one of the WH Way stages, 5 one-day hill circuits, 2 two-day warm-up trips and 3 extended diversions off the Way, this book intends to do better.
The West Highland Way from Glasgow to Fort William in Scotland is one of the finest of Britain’s long-distance paths, but it runs close to a busy main road and avoids the mountain tops.
NOT The West Highland Way offers mountain alternatives to all but one of the West Highland Way’s 9 standard stages, as well as other nearby hill circuits, warm-up backpacking trips and routes into the deep north.
5 one-day hill outings described from Rowardennan, Inverarnan, Crianlarich, Inveroran and Fort William
8 mountain alternatives create a fantastic 14-day expedition
includes two 2-day backpack trips for shoulder strengthening and 3 extended routes off the Way to Dalwhinnie, Inverie and as far north as Cape Wrath
all illustrated with OS map extracts and packed with ‘backpack facts’ for first-timers
Dorpen en Steden
Loch Lomond, Taynuilt, Crianlarich, Tyndrum, Bridge of Orchy, Kinlochleven, Corrour Station, Fort William