HOW TO WALK 'Not the West Highland Way'

Cicerone’s guidebook author Ronald Turnbull has never been one to follow the norm, as he challenges us to put together a route even better than the West Highland Way.

The West Highland Way (WHW) is one of the finest, if not the finest, of Britain’s long-distance paths. It passes through six separate mountain ranges, from the tall cone of Ben Lomond and the crag towers of grim Glen Coe, to the seductive Mamores. It runs from Scotland’s largest city, alongside her longest loch, by way of the biggest and bleakest patch of peaty moorland, to the foot of her highest mountain, paralleled in its path by (as it happens) the Highlands’ second busiest main road and also the West Highland Railway. Lure of the mountains The comfortable gravel path, the wellplaced waymarks and cosy bunkhouses, the cheerful evening singer doing Loch Lomond’s ‘bonnie banks’: do these really compensate for not going up any of those mountains? Not when above the stony…

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Trail United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2024

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