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Scotland Outdoors

Day 6 - The West Highland Way at 40 - Mark Stephen walks Scotland's first long distance trail in its 40th year

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Kinlochleven to Fort William

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0:36.2

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0:45.8

This is my first halt of the last day, day six.

0:50.6

And I have to say that was a first for me this morning.

0:53.4

Sitting having a cooked breakfast at the Highland Refuge Inn in Kinloch Levin

0:57.4

by the light of a head torch.

1:00.7

The irony of a place like Kinloch Levin, which is dominated by a hydroelectric plant,

1:07.6

suffering a total power outage, was not lost in me.

1:11.2

But God love the staff of the hotel.

1:12.9

You know, I turned up thinking,

1:14.0

well, there's not going to be any breakfast,

1:15.1

but they said, no, it's okay, we've got gas.

1:17.8

Brilliant, good on them.

1:20.0

It's a fairly stiff walk up the hill out of the town.

1:24.4

And then you're on to this fantastic Land Rover track,

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