Tuesday 9th August 2016
Packed up dry and started an easy walk into Tyndrum, where I stopped for coffee. It’s a gloriously depressing place – my guidebook describes it as “motorway service station gone astray”! Also stocked up on snacks.
On the next section I started feeling my pack weight and my back was tingling – not in a good way. After a sit down to observe a rainbow, I was feeling good – and continued on in a most lightfooted manner – with Johnny Flynn soundtrack. Met a group walking in the same direction as me – they’d done it twice!
I meant that they’d walked the West Highland Way the normal way, and liked it so much they were walking back the same way! This was the only group I met walking the same direction as me on the West Highland Way. I met them again two days later in a pub – this was a hint of the kind of community atmosphere one might experience walking it in the normal direction!
Stopped to wild camp in a rather midgey spot.
Distance: 17.5 miles [view on map]
Spending: £12
