Our Walk Along the West Highland Way

Hiking the West Highland Way Trail Walking North Through History, Rain, and the Highlands  The West Highland Way stretches for 154 kilometres from Milngavie, just outside Glasgow, to Fort William at the foot of Ben Nevis. Following old drovers’ roads, military tracks, and loch-side paths, it traces a route through the Scottish Highlands that is both historic and shaped by the land itself. As Scotland’s first official long-distance trail, it has become one of the most well-known walks in the UK and Europe, drawing hikers north. . We arrived here already carrying the weight of distance. After completing Wainwright’s Coast to Coast and finishing the Pennine Way, we had only two weeks remaining in our UK journey before returning once more to the Atlantic aboard Queen Mary 2. What began as a spontaneous decision to continue north quickly became something more complex - a walk defined not only by the beauty of the Highlands, but by the realities of weather, crowding, and the ...