Saturday, December 11, 2004
Maps… Were on our way.
Aaah while on the phone to my folks back in Australia this morning the postie dropped my maps through the door. Two ‘footprint’ maps of the West Highland Way and the Great Glen Way are now in my hands. They are strip maps showing the trail and a little on each side with notes and mile markers.
Im glad to see the mile markers on the trail as it helps planning immensly. One thing I was thinking of was using these footprint maps to knockout a kind of ‘data book’ ala the AT, so I can see at a glance what streams and roads etc are coming up at what intervals…
Im kind of dissappointed that the GGW has lots of road walking, most of the trail infact, is a stone gravel path (it is also a cycle path with slight detours/separations for cyclists and walkers)…
But, it looks like I can wildcamp all of the GGW, which is good.
The other good bit is with these maps it looks like I can make my own detours. The highest point of the GGW is 1210ft and circumnavigates around Carn na Leitire (1424ft), I might instead, go straight over instead of around.
On the downside, although I will be going through the forsest next to Loch Lochy and Lock Ness, right on the shoreline is a major road that runs from Glasgow to Inverness… I will be back from the road by a fair bit, and hopefully higher to get good views but.... what a pain, The planners need to be shot. They should have put a road alongside the loch on one side, not both sides of the lochs!!!
Ohwell.
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