The Great Glen Way with a dog: Day 1 and 2

the great Glenway stretches from coast to coast passing along the great Glen from Fort William to Inverness much of it following the Caledonian canal 79 miles long and starts at the Old Fort in Fort William and finishes Inverness Castle officially opened in April 2002. myself and my dog Broda hiked to the trail in April 2023 carrying everything we needed for five days come with us and experience some of the highs and lows along the trail oh god oh I'm just having a wee breather here I'm not good I'm an Inverness I've fallen at the last hurdle just in case you think this is easy [Music] up this week [Music] thank you [Music] so here is the Eco Cafe African Eco cancer in Cafe oh my goodness this is a feast I wasn't expecting all this look at this oh my goodness [Music] thank you [Music] so welcome to another video brother and I have got the train out from home to portfolio and we're going to be doing the 79 mile great Glen Way so brother is mad because she's been on a train for about four or five hours so I've got to get started walking it's about half 12. 20 Past 12. so and we've got about 10 miles or so 11 miles maybe to walk today and we're whale camping the whole of the great Glenway in five days hopefully so so busy Fort Williams I'll be glad to leave this foreign [Music] foreign [Music] yeah super nervous up there almost free of cloud oh so we're making progress this big backpack is hard work and without water it's 16 kilos so I've got a liter of water 500 miles probably carrying about 17.5 kilos from the back to snow oh but um hopefully I'll make it to getting wealthy so we'll pop into student eight and as the days go on the pack will get lighter so here's open so that's just the end of the Caledonian Canal there so we've made it to Neptune's staircase and we're definitely on the Caledonian Canal now you can see Ben Davis behind me hopefully it's up in the clouds and this is Neptune staircase here so I think it's seven blocks could be wrong to take the boat stop from sea level to the level of the canal up there animated very nervous what we are through the trees [Applause] the stuff is almost clear hopefully [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] so we're floating on here and I'm guessing we've maybe got about another three miles to go I hope it's no more than that but I'm a bit sore shoulders are sore right hips sore mix or that's what happens when you carry as much weight so 3.8 kilos off my back carcass foods for broader and I so the first couple of sections are pretty flat I straightforward today and tomorrow so I'm hoping for the time the steeper sections come in the pack will be lighter just open now if we walk I didn't enjoy the vet through Fort William brilliant until we got to the canal but since then it's been lovely it's quite quiet a couple of cyclists I've not seen any boats going along but um the gorgeous is out in bloom um especially on the left hand side of the canal you can just see it and it smells lovely so beautiful yeah pretty quiet just the odd sight cliff so um so throw us on the lead to try and limit our exercise a little bit otherwise she'll just go bananas um but she's doing fine I don't think she's sword at all so I'll keep plodding on oh [Music] foreign and I found the perfect camping spot look at the view I'm gonna have from a way over there so that's my rucksack here I'm gonna do that magic thing with her I magically make my tent appear whoosh tenth up to cook dinner but I am absolutely not hurt and hips are really sore so the way I feel just now I think I'm not sure I can keep keep going carrying that weight it will be a wee bit lighter tomorrow because we'll have eaten a few of the meals but um yeah it's really taken its toll my neck's not too bad back's not too bad but both hips are really sore so I'll take some ibuprofen and see how I feel um I've got my son organized uh if I get so far up the the walk that um he'll come for a minute um but I'll see how a few I might end up in if I'm still sore tomorrow I might just walk back to Fort William and get the train home and it's still a nicely Adventure but um I did think it would be a challenge and carrying all my food and all Brothers food so maybe I should have been more organized and organized uh food parcel to get delivered and maybe in Fort Augustus which is halfway along the Route but not to worry so I'm going to get dinner on I'm going to have some ibuprofen I'm gonna have a coffee and see if I feel better cool [Music] foreign so I thought I would just show you a current scenes there's the tent there a great pitch I can't get all the pegs in because there's so many stones so Brothers had our dinner and I have two I've had macaroni cheese two coffees and two Ibuprofen so I'm actually feeling a bit better and it is just gorgeous look at that so this is gear Lockheed there's a fire pit further along I don't know if you can see it um grass isn't great but it's flattish but it's just so nice I can't let it Brew it off because she'll probably jump in the canal but this is just amazing over there is the toilets and showers I've got a key for them so I'm just about to gonna for sure and up there is the gray quarries and that is anak Moore I think you can see the ski oh what are you doing sorry I think you can see the ski um ski runs on it and thermogenic beside it my final Monroe and then Ben this still some Cloud on the high picks but just amazing just lovely lovely every picnic bench right beside my pitch so absolutely gorgeous it's amazing for a hot meal and two coffees and two Ibuprofen does I was feeling a feeling pretty miserable with myself and my sore hips but um I spoke to him my father daughter who've both done the great Glen we already did it in 2020 I think and then we felt excited the same as me at this stage so keep going I'll see how I feel in the morning but I am feeling a bit more positive now but that is just amazing it's right over there that is just amazing I'll have to get some better words to describe it lovely lovely so I'm off for a shower and I'm going to wash my socks and brother's coming with me because I can't leave her I can't leave her in the tent and I certainly can't leave her tied up um so that should be fine and what would be bringing you back once I've had my shower and I'm all cozied up bye for now [Music] foreign [Music] I've had my sugar which is really nice washed out my socks and pants and I've got hot water in my Nalgene bottle I wanna the other YouTubers I can't remember who it was I got a tip from them about filling your bottle with um boiling water so it's not quite boiling um but uh looking forward to being cozy so I've got another mat and I've had a bad experience with my expert Matt even though I sent it away for a puncture repair it came back supposedly repaired but um thankfully I tried it in the house and it's still deflating so I've got a RAB um stratosphere matte which I just bought and a few days ago so I've not tried it out yet I have blown it up in the house and it seemed fine so fingers crossed I don't get a poncho and my son gave me this it's actually a car windscreen um gloss protector so I brought that to put them out on um which is a bit less bulky than a proper map but um hopefully I'll have a good night's sleep I've got my lightweight sleeping bag so um so Robin's um 300 down sleeping bag but I've got the um silk liner so hopefully I'll be warm enough but certainly for sort of mid-april the weather's um to be quite warm so I think it might be cold during the night and I'm all set for a good night's sleep so hips are still okay ibuprofen sweat to tree and we'll bring you back in the morning night so sleepy foreign [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign ers gorgeous what a lovely day brother has got bags of energy I'm all packed up I'm hoping the rucksack's a bit lighter so leave no Trace has been applied and I'm not quite sure how far we're going to walk today um we'll either stop it lagging wagon locks or we'll carry on to invagari but I'm going to see how my hips hold up I've had another two Ibuprofen this morning so feeling not too bad just now and the rucksack will be a wee bit later so we shall bring you back day two on the trail oh God oh my goodness it's still crazy foreign so this is lock lucky that we're walking up the left-hand side of now and it's just beautiful here [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] thank you so I've heard about this this is um a concrete structure stands as the remains of an original practice Landing path used by Commandos and training during World War II okay foreign s and we're on to this um borders track now that heads up side local and it's time for elevensies I've never had these before these are Cliff Bars and they cost a fortune I think this one was oh two pounds 70 or something but it's crunchy peanut butter so I'll report back mmm [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you oh yeah okay I know [Music] so lunch is cup of soup peanut butter wrap and I've also had some dry roasted peanuts quite a nice sweet spot this would have been for lunch that is just that is just typical I don't have a name very nice bit but I was kind of desperate but this was just a few hundred meters further up the track a bit of a steep climber enough absolutely beautiful look at that the last look at being nervous maybe not see it again amazing great this is a diversion obviously a permanent diversion it's all without lagging locks oh I'm just having a wee breather here so uh 26. and we've passed invigori I did think about um seeing if the invercargill hotel had room and if there were dog friendly but it looks so closed the um All Eyes across car parking assistant I'm knackered so hopefully I'm in this Woodland now hopefully I'll get somewhere whale Camp here and I'm pleased we've come thus far that was the um kind of diversion and the right hand side of rock quite the path has been shot for a couple of years I think but oh it's all um rubberly Forest track and there's quite a lot of I think so I just need to find some water I've got just under a liter and a half but it probably won't be enough um so I need to find some water and find somewhere to come and then I'm going to make a move cool oh everyone has come alive again she was flagging a bit in but she's there again another element although she's absolutely filthy she probably covered in ticks as well so it's just about quarter past day and we managed to find a pitch not a great one just to the side of this Forest track here somewhere on there great Clan way diversion we've come through invagari and Into the Woods and it's the best I could find so there's quite a lot of them pine cones and things I've had to clear away and but hopefully it'll do and just down there come on Flora I can actually see the main roads and that big pile and you can see look oh yeah there's so many woods down there um so you can hear traffic feeling but the path around the other side of local has been shot for a couple of years and there's some wild camp in sports down there but very few it's part of the trail so I've made good progress though it means I'll have a shorter day tomorrow to get to Inver Morrison so everyone's lovely here but spoiled by these great big um height barriers but not to worry so we're all set up we've had dinner I've had a coffee just brushing my teeth and we're going to get cozied up in the tent and have an early night because brother didn't sleep well last night and I didn't sleep well because she didn't sleep well so oh she's pulling me she's still got bags of energy haven't you inside I've managed to find a water source and the water and that color look at that but I filtered it so hopefully it's fine for plenty water and say night night and bring you back in the morning night [Music] foreign [Music]

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Published: Tue Apr 25 2023