Well I walked the Cape Wrath trail between Friday the 16th April and Sunday 2nd May 2010. I had a chance to do it having finished one career and before setting off on another. It had been a while since I had done any long distance walks. Life just seemed to get in the way..
When I first started to research the Cape Wrath trail I found only fairly limited information. I relied upon the site created by Cameron McNeish, which I utilised and compared it to the original book on the trail which is now over twenty years old. The book has now suffered as a consequence and some of the faint paths they refer to are now broad land rover tracks! Having combined the best of the two I came up with an itinerary to suit me.
The purpose of this blog is to keep a few memories alive and hopefully help anyone that wants to blaze their own trail with a few reasonably up to date tips on the route.
The photos will suggest the weather was generally excellent. That is probably because you tend to get the camera out when it isn't raining! That said the weather was pretty good for Scotland in April and I wouldn't have swapped it.
One thing I did find was that the North West mountain forecast was more often than not wrong. The North and North West seem to have a climate of their own which changes very quickly.
So here we go. Be kind to me as this is my first blog!
When I first started to research the Cape Wrath trail I found only fairly limited information. I relied upon the site created by Cameron McNeish, which I utilised and compared it to the original book on the trail which is now over twenty years old. The book has now suffered as a consequence and some of the faint paths they refer to are now broad land rover tracks! Having combined the best of the two I came up with an itinerary to suit me.
The purpose of this blog is to keep a few memories alive and hopefully help anyone that wants to blaze their own trail with a few reasonably up to date tips on the route.
The photos will suggest the weather was generally excellent. That is probably because you tend to get the camera out when it isn't raining! That said the weather was pretty good for Scotland in April and I wouldn't have swapped it.
One thing I did find was that the North West mountain forecast was more often than not wrong. The North and North West seem to have a climate of their own which changes very quickly.
So here we go. Be kind to me as this is my first blog!
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