scottish national trail
caledonian-canal-scotland-swing-bridge1
-
- Lovely coffee in the Atholl Arms.
-
- The “slightly ruinous footbridge”.
-
- Bulldozed track…
-
- Warming up again at Bynack Lodge after the aborted river crossing.
-
- Blackburn Bothy has a spacious bathroom with real stone fittings…
-
- Drying out with a firewood partly foraged from a the Black Burn, partly lugged on my back over the Corrieyairack.
-
- The interesting ruined trestle bridge at Fort Augsutus, a Dipper singing loudly from its nearest trestle and a Grey Wagtail feeding young in tis furthest.
-
- Easy river crossings in Glen Banchor, thank goodness
-
- Looking North from Glen Banchor
-
- This is also the path.
-
- Grumpy Glen Tilt
-
- This was the path..
-
- …but higher up it was increasingly fragmenting.
-
- Still quite a lot of snow in frost pockets n the way up the glen…
-
- Bedtime reading at Greystones
-
- In the lounge at Greystones
-
- Dr Ian Blyth of the University of the Highlands and Islands introducing us to Debord’s concept of the dérive at the local history day. I feel a blog post coming on…
-
- Loch Gynack, not to be confused with Bynack.
-
- Morag’s wobbly bunks, not a caption you read every day.
-
- Inexplicably shot and dumped Mountain Hare (left) and Rabbit (right). IDs confirmed by the Hare Preservation Trust.
-
- Ruined shieling, Glen Banchor
-
- Spey Reservoir
-
- Bedroom window view -Strathspey
-
- Inside the ruined shieling, traps of all shapes and sizes…
-
- Quirky Wildcat – rather unusual pelage!
-
- Display of beautiful naturally-dyed hand woven yarns at the local history day.
-
- Along the Caledonian Canal. It’s huge!
-
- From the swing bridge, the Caledonian Canal heading into Loch Oich
-
- As I rested at what looked like an idyllic lochside campsite on the Great Glen Way, a Wood Warbler and a Cuckoo sang overhead.
-
- On the Great Glen Way along Loch Oich there are two alternative routes, this cycleway along the old railway or a nicer lochside path. Sadly the latter was badly obstructed by fallen trees at the west end.
-
- Lady’s Smock at Kytra Lock
-
- Looking back from Laggan Bridge
-
- Laggan Bridge, where the Great Glen Way intersects with the rather more hardcore Cape Wrath Trail.
-
- Loch Oich
An Oldie Outdoors 