The breakfast this morning was brilliant, lots of variety, so we made sure we had plenty to eat before setting off.

The weather was not kind to us, it was raining quite heavily and very windy as well.

For the first 3 miles it was pretty bleak and remote.

After a while we started to climb the Devil’s staircase and you could look back over Glen Coe.

The Devil’s Staircase was initially given its name by the soldiers who were part of the road building programme of General Wade. The carrying of building materials up that stretch of the road was not popular! The name came into being when some of the workers building the Blackwater Dam chose to travel to the nearest pub after their wages had been paid out. For the workers at Kinlochleven the journey to the Kingshouse Hotel proved to be more difficult than many realised. The journey back was even worse as unsteady legs meant that many were unable to manage the return trip and, on a cold winter’s night, the devil often ”claimed his own“.

After around a 550m climb we made it to the top, the highest point of the WHW. Despite the weather the views were still pretty amazing.

As we continued walking you could see the Blackwater Reservoir.

This reservoir was built to drive the generators of the hydro-electric plant for what used to be the aluminium smelter at Kinlochleven.

As we continued walking the sun actually made an appearance, even though the wind was pretty relentless.

We walked past the hydro-electric plant and headed down into Kinlochleven through some woodlands.

We could see the dam and the pipeline as we headed into the village.

We made it to our destination around lunchtime so we couldn’t check in straight away. But we had a couple of toasties and some coffee to warm up.

The walk today was our shortest day, just 9 miles but the weather wasn’t the best. I have now managed to perfect my technique with the she wee!

After a bit of a rest we wandered through the village to the church.

We the decided to visit all of the pubs in Kinlochleven. The first one was the Tailrace Inn where we sampled local beers and met Smudge.

We met a guy called Shane in this pub, he was a bit of a Scottish hippie and had some interesting views on life. He showed us where the next pub was – the Bothy Bar – and the views from here were stunning.

After trying another local beer we went back to our place for a delicious dinner.

We moved upstairs to the balcony bar to take in some more of the amazing views before heading to bed.