WHW 2019 - Day 6 - Inverarnam to Tyndrum
Saturday
12.5 Miles 6 Hrs 32,000 steps
An early start this morning because there was a threat of rain later in the day, however this didn't materialize and we have had the best weather so far, walking in T shirts.
We saw slow worm warming itself on the path this morning, in fact I almost trod on it, the camouflage was so good I thought it was a stick, he played dead while Col took a photograph and then slithered off. A few moments later we spotted another one.
The paths today were good either drovers routes or military roads from the 1700's but our poles were still useful.
Falloch Glen and falls were delightful, we kept stopping to admire the scenery.
Crianlarich is considered the halfway distance (we are on day 6 of 10 so have some long distances still to cover), it is also the watershed point of the country, rain that falls her either flows into the Atlantic Ocean or the North Sea. It is also known locally as Bogle Glen, a Bogle is a naughty spirit or ghost that likes to play tricks on people. The Bogle poked a stick in my eye!!!! missed my sunglasses and right into my eye which is now quite sore. We learnt from a previous similar incident a few years ago the cornea is the fastest healing tissue in the body, so I hope it will be better tomorrow. My first aid kit doesn't have an eye patch.
We came upon an official Met Office weather station...
...with an interesting information board. We were apparently in one of the wettest places in Britain. It rains 280 days of the year with 2.5m of rain!
A short while after reaching our destination it started to rain! So we were very lucky
with the weather today.
We saw slow worm warming itself on the path this morning, in fact I almost trod on it, the camouflage was so good I thought it was a stick, he played dead while Col took a photograph and then slithered off. A few moments later we spotted another one.
The paths today were good either drovers routes or military roads from the 1700's but our poles were still useful.
Falloch Glen and falls were delightful, we kept stopping to admire the scenery.
Crianlarich is considered the halfway distance (we are on day 6 of 10 so have some long distances still to cover), it is also the watershed point of the country, rain that falls her either flows into the Atlantic Ocean or the North Sea. It is also known locally as Bogle Glen, a Bogle is a naughty spirit or ghost that likes to play tricks on people. The Bogle poked a stick in my eye!!!! missed my sunglasses and right into my eye which is now quite sore. We learnt from a previous similar incident a few years ago the cornea is the fastest healing tissue in the body, so I hope it will be better tomorrow. My first aid kit doesn't have an eye patch.
We came upon an official Met Office weather station...
...with an interesting information board. We were apparently in one of the wettest places in Britain. It rains 280 days of the year with 2.5m of rain!
A short while after reaching our destination it started to rain! So we were very lucky
with the weather today.
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