After a homely breakfast we set off from Kinlochleven around 9:30am. The morning views from our room were pretty impressive.

It was quite sunny when we left but the day would bring showers too. There was an interesting gnome garden on the way out of town.

The initial bit of the walk was quite a steep climb through birch woodland.

We had a good view back to Kinlochleven and you could see the pipelines from the hydro-electric system. And Loch Leven itself.

After a long uphill walk we started to pass through Lairigmore, known as the great pass. We had sunshine and rain during this time, but when the sun was out it all looked amazing.

We continued on this path for many miles. After a while we came across the ruins of an old cottage in the area of Tigh-na-sleubhaich.

There were some other ruins a bit further down, but not so well preserved.

We continued walking along the old military road, through the Mamore mountains.

We found a comfortable spot to have some lunch, it had a pretty good view too.

We continued on the path and eventually got our first glimpse of Ben Nevis.

As we continued on walking the views got better.

The last one and a half miles of the route were along a road so there wasn’t much to see. We passed the former end of the West Highland Way.

In 2010 the end of the route was changed so you now walk through the town of Fort William to the statue of the rambling man.

It was so nice to reach the end – and with no blisters or injuries for either of us.

We wandered back through the town, passing a couple of churches, to our b&b for the night.

After a lovely hot shower we headed into town for a delicious dinner which included venison lasagne.

And after meeting another new friend, Meg, and a couple of beers, we headed to bed.

Today we walked 27.68km.