Up early today and thought the weather looked awful so it was tempting to stay in bed! It rained all night and there was a wet patch just next to my sleeping bag. (Leaky ground sheet honest!)
After a few minutes we had a change of heart and decided to pack up and move north… An hour later we were sipping costa lattes making our way up the A82 to Fort Augustus.
We pitched the soaking tent, unpacked and drove back to Lagan where we parked one car outside a kind gentleman’s 3 garages (he was off up to Inverness for the day he told me when i enquired where to park round her). All aboard the other car, it was twenty minutes to Gairlochy. By this time it was noon, ‘start the strava app!’ And off we climbed up through a forest path along side the loch.
The path wound up and down alongside the Loch in and our of forestry commission areas.
Highlights included meeting a woman with two blind dogs… Overtaking a group of three proper (carrying tents) walkers… Then loosing Candy and having to use a dog whistle app to get her back, and overtaking the walkers again, arriving at the composting toilets but unable to use them as we didn’t have a key and finally reaching the first parked car at the end if our 14 mile day!
We headed south back to the start to collect the other car, headed north home to our tent and enjoyed dinner at the Bothy next to a staircase of Lochs in Fort Augustus.