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| Kingshouse Inn |
Looking out in the morning and it was certainly bleak,
wet and looked like rain or was raining!! Damn.
Breakfast undertaken, we stick to continental mostly,
with an occasional egg thrown in. The full Scottish is just too much to even
contemplate. My liver goes into a conupction fit just reading the various bits.
Pack up, get our gear together and finally head out.
It is bleak, but no rain. In fact there is no rain all
day and we walk in sunshine part f the day AND it is quite warm.
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| Devil's Staircase |
The first part is quite flat just off the A82 to Glasgow,
it then heads off for a major climb of about 350m up what is called the Devil’s
Staircase. It’s a short hard pitch to a saddle and them mostly downhill all the
way to Kinlochleven, sometimes very steeply downhill.
We pass some penstock lines, some of which are pluming
leaks, until we finally reach the River Leven and the turbine house and the
village. Somehow it is associated with Rio Tinto Alcan and involved in
aluminium smelting.
A beer and a cider with lunch goes down well, as we have
walked without break since just before nine and it is now after 12 PM.
Our accommodation is open, though we have beaten our bags
again. It’s by far the most luxurious we have had so far, a 4 star B and B.
Kinlochleven gets our once over, having a very impressive
climbing wall and ice-climbing wall set-up.
There’s a pub right next door to our accommodation and
some pan-fried salmon looks the go!
Tomorrow 24 km and the finish at Fort William.
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