West Highland Way day 7

Kinlockleven to Fort William 

GPS 104.8 miles

We leave our B&B it may be the furthest away from the way in the village but was worth it, a fabulous stay and the most incredible selection for breakfast. We cross the river to get back to the trail.

 Once back to the route it's almost instantly uphill through a forest but more like midge central. The weather is light rain and wearing coats up steep gradients makes you sweat! Wiping the perspiration from my brow and I get a hand full of midges yuk!!!. Towards the top and the gradient eases.

There are a few clearings and we can look down the valley as the weather begins to improve.

We leave the forest and head across Lairigmoor, an old military road. 

After very heavy rain last night there was lots of water around with many waterfalls in full flow.

Also lots of streams flowing across the path.

The rain is on and off but the cloud lifted enough to make this a pleasant walk as we walked for miles along the old road.

The path for the last few miles offers fine views to Ben Nevis but the top section, no idea how much, was shrouded in cloud. It still looked a tough challenge for tomorrow.. 

Once we descend a long track we hit the road at Glen Nevis, we know we only have 4.5 miles to go. We pass tonight's accommodation and think, boy we have to walk back.

Now some bright spark had the idea of moving the end of the West Highland Way to the other end of town - this was the original end.

Here we popped into the visitor centre and collected our completion certificates 

To reach the new end of the way you now have to walk another mile along the high street to the sculpture at Gordon Square.

Yes we made it!

We had an amazing end to our West Highland Way when we were greeted by our friends, that we met on our previous charity walk the C2C, Andy and Jannine with the poster they made.Thanks Andy and Janine for making the end special.

We had generous donations from other walkers plus Andy and Janine, who we shall join for a drink and food later.

We are celebrating completing the WHW and it's been another amazing walk but unlike most walkers where this is the end we have the daunting prospect of climbing Ben Nevis tomorrow. Ben Nevis the highest mountain in GB is a long climb and a good challenge normally but the 100 miles walking has left our legs tired and just adds to the difficulty tomorrow..

Thanks for reading and we are now confident with donations we have collected on route and sponsorship yet to be paid we shall pass the £4,000 we are incredibly honoured to have so many generous supporters thank you.