Читать книгу Not the West Highland Way. Diversions over mountains, smaller hills or high passes for 8 of the WH Way's 9 stages онлайн

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The difficulty estimates are on a rough scale of 1 to 5:

Clear smooth paths, no steep sections Small rough paths, some steep ground Short steep climbs or long gentle ones, pathless ground with clear ridge lines Some boulderfields, steep rough ground, navigation at the level of ‘northwest, southeast’; remote country a day’s walk from any road Featureless plateau or moorland requiring compass bearings in mist; heather tramping; remote high ground; long steep rough ascents and descents; rocky ground and scrambling

A Winter Not the West Highland Way

The Not the West Highland Way idea is less perverse than it sounds. Ever since the path was opened walkers have been taking in Ben Lomond, and using Ben Nevis as a post-walk warm-down. Many more will have walked under Beinn Dorain, gazed longingly upwards, and wished they’d brought along the extra map and hadn’t already scheduled themselves forward to Inveroran. When I stopped on my own WH Way walk at Tyndrum’s By the Way Hostel, I wasn’t terribly surprised to see the squiggly line painted across its ceiling that is the altitude profile for ‘The Highland High Way’, a Not the WHW that’s a whole lot more strenuous than anything in this book, invented in 1996 by two tough types called Heather Connon and Paul Roper.