It turned out to be a pile of stones but by the time I’d retraced my steps the sun had come out and the loch didn’t feel that isolated. But first, before checking in and before buying more breadrolls and cheese, I stopped at the Pumpkin Cafe and sat down to latte and chocolate cake. Feiner Sand und dazwischen ein paar schroffe Felsen. That’s because the road to Strathcarron, the A890, is busy, initially steep, has blind bends and no footpath. But since the lodge no longer appears to be in business, you’d be better off spending half the day lazily exploring the Strathcarron area and then devoting the afternoon to plodding up the road to Gerry’s Hostel on the A890. Und so besorge ich mir Literatur (Iain Harper „Walking the Cape Wrath Trail“) und Karten (Cape Wrath Trail South/North von Harvey Maps, Maßstab 1:40.000), durchforste das Internet nach Informationen und Reiseberichten. What this means is that when the tide is in at Loch Nevis then you have to scramble over some big, big boulders to get around to the mouth of the River Carnach in the glen next door. On the face of it, it doesn’t seem right that you should have to walk the best part of ten miles west to the sea on a route to the north. The path remains poor and relatively obscure as it winds down and across the face of the hill into Glen Elchaig, occasionally skirting the top of rock faces. I followed the detour and joined the vehicle track to Benmore Lodge. July 30, 2012 by Mark Patterson 4 Comments. Since there were a multiplicity of steep surfaces and rock faces I went for the nearest slope I could scramble up, the one covered in bracken, and hoped I would find the path eventually. The new Cicerone guide will recommend a new route variation north of Ullapool, perhaps adding to the sense that the CWT is whatever you want it to be. This one began with the way-too-expensive Scotrail sleeper to Fort William. Irgendwie zieht es mich im Urlaub meist nach Norden. It is renowned as the most difficult long distance trail in the UK due to large sections of difficult terrain. However, you shouldn’t go hungry around here as there are also shops at the next stage stop, Kinlochewe. Der Cape Wrath Trail ist ein ca. Die Sonne schaut zwischen düsteren Wolken durch und leuchtet die Berge an. And there had been other days, like today, when I had seen no other people after setting off in the morning. B&H don’t mention this sign. OS marks it as a path, but it doesn’t deserve the title. One path bears left from the village and first heads up to a large body of water called Lochan Fada via Gleann Bianasdall. In fact, although I had been planning to camp beside Loch an Nid, the narrow loch on the other side of the pass, the even greater sense of isolation caused by the mountains on both sides of it, and the rain storm that blew in, made me want to keep walking. Bin erschrocken, wie schnell man die Orientierung verliert. But that was in 1997 and things have changed a bit since then since Coulin Pinewoods is now a sloping landscape of bleached wood, the whole lot having been felled to encourage growth by native species. As the river changes direction, the glen steepens and narrows and the sense of seclusion (or isolation) grows greater. Nach vielem Abwägen beschließe ich, dass diesmal die Tour im Vordergrund steht und nehme nur eine Kompakte mit. My Cape Wrath Trail took me the better part of 8 months of planning and preparation. Wieder zurück fahren wir mit dem letzten Bus Richtung Fähre. The alternative was a walk along a busy main road, and finishing the journey by train over the Glenfinnan Viaduct seemed the more interesting option. Day Ten: An Teallach to Camusnagaul – ten miles or thereabouts. The Cape Wrath Trail, besides being Britain’s most remote long-distance trail, is also a noticeably unmarked trail. Or, you could avoid the road walking by getting a lift to Achnashellach Station and then continue the walk to Kinlochewe. The one going upstream should help you negotiate the rough plod for a while but when this also runs out you are left to pick your own way to the steep bottom of the pass. As you plod from the loch the jaws of the pass seem like portals to another world and any feelings of isolation you have up here have will probably be magnified. Einige lange Abende fiebere ich mit Bloggern, notiere mir Hinweise zu Strecke, Ausrüstung und Übernachtungsmöglichkeiten. The route I followed was based on the somewhat eccentric trail described by Denis Brooke and Phil Hinchcliffe in North to the Cape (Cicerone, 1999), which starts at Fort William and immediately heads west to Glenfinnan before turning north. But no matter where you descend, you face another, much steeper, ascent of the glen in front of you to reach Strathan and Loch Arkaig. I had visited Cape Wrath on a couple of different occasions so knew what a special place this part of Scotland was. Nasse Handschuhe sind doof. In this blog I’ll share some information about the trail, my preparation and why I’m doing it. About Us 'Oner' Blog. The view from Loch Eil. But after a while the track peters out and you are left to find your own best way over the rough terrain. But first there was an 8am bus journey back down the road to the crossroads at Drumsallie, where B&H’s CWT starts in earnest. If you're planning to make the trek, here's what you have to look forward to. It takes place annually in Jetzt geht es noch an die Planung für die kommenden Tage. And there are supplies available at Gerry’s bunkhouse, a few miles up the road from Strathcarron, which is where I headed after a night at the Strathcarron Hotel – or at least in a field over the road, which is where they let me camp when I found out all the rooms were full. Day Seven: Strathcarron to Achnashellach – eight miles. I kept walking to the nearby Kintail Outdoor Centre, which is marked on OS as a place of tourist interest. Here I ran into a couple who were walking back towards the bull field where I had camped for the night. I was initially confused by this pass because I had been expecting to see a lochan at the bottom of it. At first I’d thought they were patches of snow but as I got closer they turned into big pegged out white sheets. Although the path becomes vague in places, it follows the river, which heads north west, north (at last) and north west again. Ignore it and continue straight on or you’ll get badly lost. I aim to complete the second leg of the walk in spring 2013. Hilfreich wäre es, wenn ich nicht immer erst zu spät feststellen würde, dass auch ein halbwegs vernünftiger Weg existiert. When B&H wrote their book there was a foot passenger ferry service to Ullapool operated by a hotel. So for those of you interested in walking to Cape Wrath, it’s time to dust off those map-and-compass skills! Day Five: Shiel Bridge to Camas-Luinie in Glen Elchaig – ten miles? ‘Rewilding’ is very much a live issue in Scotland and there was much evidence of it on this walk in the days ahead. He mumbled something about Morvich and the fact that he didn’t tackle the Falls of Glomach because he didn’t have trekking poles (I missed the falls out too, but not because I didn’t have any poles). Auf dem Trail liegen einige Bothies, frei zugängliche Hütten der Mountain Bothies Association. From this point I had the first panoramic view of Strathan, Glen Pean and Glen Dessarry where I would be walking the next day. Here, as you follow winding forestry tracks through Dorusduain Wood you should notice that the conifers are so dense that almost no light filters through to the forest floor. Mein großes Abenteuer ist zu Ende. Using the compasses I’d been given at Kinloch Hourn (it was a new orienteering compass) I set a bearing for the loch and headed up over rough ground – there is no path – to two prominent rocky knolls. Mein fester Vorsatz vom Vorabend für ein Hotelzimmer hat sich bei dem passablen Wetter tatsächlich in Luft aufgelöst. Glen Shiel was the scene of a brief firefight between Hanoverian and Jacobite forces in 1719, the year of the second of the three Jacobite rebellions. And I now fully assuaged my walker’s guilt by doing the first part of B&H’s official route north from Achnashellach Station. Before I went (in June 2012) I met a young bloke working in an outdoor shop who said he’d just followed the CWT as far as Ullapool. Due to its extremely remote nature, two nights of this trek will be spent wild camping. Yes, the people at the B&B had a room. Towards the end of the loch a friendly crofter gave me a lift to Locheilside rail station on the other side of the loch and from there I finished the journey to Glenfinnan on the train. Did he know what they were for? In Glasgow angekommen, habe ich schnell meine Gaskartusche und mein Zugticket. And throughout this section of the walk, the stoney round top of Ben Aden looks down on you, like the All-Seeing Eye of Sauron. Das Wasser des Sees ist spiegelglatt. Wilderness was one reason I was doing this walk – seeking out a few reminders of the Jacobite rebellion, and learning some social history of the glens which supported it, and later suffered Hanoverian vengeance as a consequence, was another. Brücken sind auch toll! But this is one of those rare OS errors because there is no bridge – something to bear in mind if you come this way when the river is in spate. Kurz vor dem Ziel bleibt in einiger Entfernung ein Kleinbus stehen. But after a coffee and a good read of the guest book, in which one visitor describes being chased to the bunkhouse by a banshee and uses the words ‘I shit myself”, I decided to press on to Kinloch Hourn at the end of this big sea loch. B&H warn that it’s a tiring, tortuous path and so it proved. Hierbei handelt es sich nicht (!) Just above you and to the left rises the sharp jagged profile of the Forcan Ridge. Der CWT führt von Fort William zum nordwestlichsten Punkt Schottlands, dem Cape Wrath. Im gemütlichen Dachzimmer des Hotels ist genug Platz, den Rucksack für die Tour zu sortieren. On the way down to Corrie Hallie and the road there were several people coming up, including an undergraduate geologist. After a spell of road-walking on the A87 down to Loch Duich, the path turned north east past the busy caravan site at Morvich. Then he said that the Brooke/ Hinchcliffe route was out of date because paths they described no longer existed. But near the top, you’ll see the small green sign that wrongly directs walkers to turn right to reach Bealach na Croise. The redcoats used mortars to shell a combined force of Highlanders and Spanish troops, which caused the Scots to retreat and the Spaniards to surrender. It all seems obvious now. But there is a bunkhouse close by, at the glen’s other hamlet, Camas-luinie, which is where I now headed as I plodded north west up the road and recrossed the river through a field of Highland Cattle to the farm at Coille-righ. Located in Scotland, it runs from Fort William, through the Highlands and Western Scotland, to the lighthouse at Cape Wrath, the northwestern-most point of Scotland. The sign they reproduce in the book is no longer there. Und wasserdichte Socken! Sign to Strathan warning that you are about to leave the known universe. “When I see flowers and plants I just kick them out of the way.” At Corrie Hallie, you can continue over the hill to Ullapool. The tiny community at Kinloch Hourn was fresh and rain-washed the next morning and a nice bloke from Aberdeen gave me his new compass to replace the one I’d lost the previous day. You might walk into the wrong pass, they say – presumably Bealach Gorm, which is where you would end up anyway if you followed the arrows on the misleading green sign on the path up from the village. Cape Wrath Trail Blog. The CWT is more of a route than a trail because it’s not blazed or way-marked and because you can connect the endpoints using any sequence of trails, 4×4 tracks, paths, roads, or off-trail segments to connect the two endpoints. Als Ziel hatten wir uns den Norden Schottlands ausgesucht: Den Cape Wrath Trail. B&H remark that the descent to Sourlies is ‘unsparing, undefined and steep in places.’ It is steep, yes, but it is on a clear path and, as you descend further, you may, as I did, enjoy intoxicating natural perfumes blending the smells of wild flowers, wood and water. Having walked half of this long-distance trail in north west Scotland in 2012, and the second half in 2013 (the link to the second half is at the top of this page) it seemed to me that some prospective walkers would benefit from help with route-finding along a trail that seems bound to grow in popularity in coming years. Der Rucksack wird trotzdem schwer genug. Den ganzen Tag geht es nur mühsam voran. This is a good location in which to contemplate Cape Wrath Trail’s tough reputation. Profile views - 153 Yet the outdoor shop bloke said he’d walked north east up the Caledonian Canal before turning left and north somewhere or other. B&H remark that there is a ‘faint path’ heading across this ground. With no other people around, and no sign of any habitation, I could see why the author Tom Atkinson called his book about North West Scotland ‘The Empty Lands.’ After walking an estimated kilometre, and unable to line up my OS map with the shapes of the peaks and tops along the top of the glen, I decided to head up the shortest way I could find. Daneben gibt es weitere Übernachtungsmöglichkeiten in Hostels und Hotels. Although I still think it’s difficult to tell from OS where the lochan is in relation to the top of the pass, the water creeps into view at the far right-hand end of the pass as you come over the top. Im Westen ist das Meer zu sehen. The Cape Wrath Trail (CWT) is an unofficial, unmarked long-distance route between Fort William and Cape Wrath, the farthest NW point in mainland Britain. This is basically a big scenic detour and I’d already identified a different and more direct route into Glen Elchaig on the map. Share . There are no signs or posts to show you the way; navigating this trail is one of the things you’ll have to take care of yourself. Had I stayed I would have spent the afternoon exploring the beach. The trail leads you through uninhabited Highland wilderness. Snipe? Karte und Kompass oder GPS-Gerät sollten unbedingt dabei sein. As the track turns east the vast bulk of Gulvain, a 987-metre high Munro, shows itself. So I followed the track – marked Glomach Falls – along the river Abhainn Chonaig and finally into the Dorusduain Wood, a large and very dense conifer plantation stuck on the glen side which has been described by campaigners such as the Scottish Wild Land Group as a ‘huge visual intrusion’ which would benefit from ‘rewilding’ with native species. Aber an meiner Navigation muss ich noch arbeiten. To me, the reputation can’t be due to the length of the daily sections; many long-distance paths have much greater daily mileages. By the way, there are also some notes in the hut suggesting that the windows in the bothy have been installed back to front. May 13, 2016; It's hard to believe that this website is now nearly five years old. However, he seems to have initially followed the route favoured by author and TGO editor-at-large Cameron McNeish, who suggests the Caledonian Canal as a starter rather than the scenic left-up-left-up-up-right approach of Brooke and Hinchcliffe. Continue reading » Harvey Cape Wrath Trail Maps. I took the Great Glen variant, which is an easier start to the … Day Four: Kinloch Hourn to Shiel Bridge – 9-10 miles. The Cape Wrath Trail takes you to beaches, glens and mountaintops that see very few humans pass by in a year. How much did the beds cost? Der CWT führt von Fort William zum nordwestlichsten Punkt Schottlands, dem Cape Wrath. Like the one to Loch Nevis, the glen to Loch Morar contains a lochan – and I could now see a body of water ahead. You know the feeling: a rail ticket in your pocket; a rucksack that seems far too heavy; and feelings of excitement about the adventure to come. The second woodland of the day, above Kinlochewe, gave B&H same problems since they report that blown trees meant it took them an hour to cover the 1.5km through it – not that they were meant to walk through it at all. But before heading on, turn left at the bridge over the River Coulin and you will come to the waterfalls at Easan Dorcha and surely one of the smallest, neatest bothies in Scotland – the Tea House, as it’s called. After this the track moves more or less gently uphill and away from the river as it passed out of the glen and into a plantation. Collection of bottle tops at Gerry’s Hostel, The Falls at Easan Dorcha, in the guest book. Our favorite bothies along the Cape Wrath Trail, from the cozy to the absolutely epic. Was there a place to get a cup of coffee? Das eigene Zelt sollte trotzdem dabei sein und ich habe es fast ausschließlich genutzt. No matter. It was a peculiarity of British weather systems that while the rest of Britain was suffering heavy rain and floods, the North West Highlands were in a prolonged dry period that had left many springs and mountain burns completely dry and reduced rivers to shallow trickles. In contrast to the jagged stony beasts to the south, some of the mountains visible around Strathcarron are more whale-backed and hide their bulk in thick low clouds, as if sulkily reluctant to show their true face. The path continues around the hill and, where it peters out at the next burn, the Coire Mhalagain, you are directed to turn right and head up to the pass, called Bealach Coire Mhalagain. This seemed to be a strange question since I was wearing boots, gaiters, walking trousers and had a bulging 45L rucksack strapped to my back. At the tip of the loch you turn right and enter a wood via a gate, walking uphill on a rough boggy path that may be hard to find. This is your very first post. Pfade. Or what? Almost everybody I met in this part of Scotland after this more than made up for this bloke’s evident dislike of walkers/the English/human beings under 65. Further on the path crosses a burn and you need to find a bridge 100m upstream, state our favourite guides. Having walked half of this long-distance trail in north west Scotland in 2012, and the second half in 2013 (the link to the second half is at the top of this page) it seemed to me that some prospective walkers would benefit from help with route-finding along a trail that seems bound to grow in popularity in coming years. http://www.1745association.org.uk/Long%20March.htm. “The direction is clear; simply keep to the ride,” write B&H. But this is plain rubbish, since most of the Brooke/Hinchcliffe route is on tracks along moorland, glens and over passes which have been formed over generations. Was für ein Tag! In fact, if you keep parallel and close to the estate fence that ascends through the wood and you’ll soon find the way. Cape Wrath (Schottisch-Gälisch: Am Parbh, An Carbh in Lewis) ist ein Kap in Sutherland, Highland, im nördlichen Schottland.Das Kap stellt den nordwestlichsten Punkt der Insel Großbritannien dar.. Der Name Cape Wrath (auch englisch für Zorn oder Wut) stammt vom altnordischen Wort für "Umkehrpunkt". You’re about to start a long-distance walk. But although green on the map, the ex-plantation here should be a white blank since it’s now more like a post-apocalyptic landscape from Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, with row upon of row of dead bleached stumps and brash. Ich übernachte in der Bothy in Barisdale in Gesellschaft von drei Schotten. After a while the beast Gulvain shows its face. Surely the loch wasn’t that far? Schreib uns eine E-Mail: blog@camp4.de, on Reisebericht: Schottland – Cape Wrath Trail. Making coffee in a midge-free breeze also gave me the pleasure of soaking up one of the walk’s greatest backwards views: the wide, glacial landscape that includes the terrain back to the mountains enclosing Loch an Nid. This was a nice change from the standard advice never to hitchhike that is published by Lonely Planet etc. Nach einigen Furten bei Wind und teilweise Hagel und Sturm freue ich mich aber über ein festes Dach über dem Kopf. B&H suggest you “follow the road” a mile or so up to Strathcarron from this point but it would be perfectly excusable to hitch a lift or even get the train from the stop at Attadale to the next station at Strathcarron or Achnashellach in Glen Carron. It was obviously good for fresh water, but bad for midges, and so I packed quickly and early and cooked breakfast half way up the steep wide track to Dundonnell. Ich fotografiere leidenschaftlich gern und knapp 2 kg Kameraausrüstung waren auf meinen bisherigen Touren immer der große Luxus. A rarely seen example of a human being heading down to the pass. Then I thought: I can’t get any further up the glen to the lochan because there’s a cliff in the way, so this is surely the right place to ascend. However, the profusion of pretty bog wild flowers here, as well as the occasional leg-breaking hole in the ground, should help keep your mind off the leaden feeling in your legs. As you do you can clearly see the mouth of the pass ahead. From the bridge the track drops to Coulin and Loch Coulin. In truth, I hadn’t given the matter a lot thought but the bunkhouse owners persuaded me that getting a lift early the next morning would not be a problem. The Cape Wrath Trail runs from Fort William to Cape Wrath on Scotland’s northwest coast, for approximately 280 miles. Speaking to some Scottish walkers I met later, it is not unknown for walkers to mistakenly follow the path to Loch Morar. Part of the path near the side of the loch was also being repaired and so, once again, I had to clamber over boulders hanging over sea water. Another section advises walkers to find an important path by scrambling up a steep glen where the river turns south west and shoots out of a gorge. The battle took place on June 10 near Loch Duich ‘at the narrow north western exit of the glen just above Shiel Bridge’ according to Christopher Duffy in The ’45 (Cassell, 2003). Dafür hat man streckenweise die Wahl zwischen verschiedenen Varianten. They call it a “steady climb along a well-defined, well-maintained, but very rough path, with fine backwards views” – but doing it in reverse means the second half is a descent back to Glen Carron, of course. at this point you will be looking for another exit from the gorge. Aber eigentlich fühlt sich das hier wie das Ziel an und wir beschließen, dass das Cape noch einen Tag warten muss. From there I expected the loch to be visible. I find this hard to believe because the forest isn’t that big and your instinct, even if lost, would be to walk north and down hill to the road to Kinlochewe. If you like, use this post to tell readers why you started this blog and what you plan to do with it. I turned left and went on. This website has been developed as a resource for people planning an expedition on the Cape Wrath Trail in Scotland. This takes you further into the wide, yawning – and empty – green glen of the Allt Camgharaidh. The front cover shows an old-time illegal whisky distiller called Ali Mal as he merrily pours a glass of his spirit. In it, I saw an opportunity to better my exhilarating hike along the Pennine Way, and to create new stories for myself about my own confidence and resilience. Das wird mein großes Abenteuer! Und irgendwie ist es spannend, dass so bewusst wahrzunehmen. Zu Hause auf der Couch blättere ich mit reichlich Fernweh in „1001 Wanderwege“ auf fast eben so vielen Seiten und verliebe mich in ein Foto – ein Leuchtturm an einer traumhaften Steilküste. After the last few days it seemed like utter luxury. Farmer and bunkhouse owner Willie Nicolson, who brought me two farm eggs for breakfast, also talked about some aspects of the glen’s social history and later gave me a book about the glen, Beloved Over All: Glen Elchaig In Kintail, written by his late aunt Isabel M. Nicolson. B&H write that there is no “formal path” at the burn. “Well that was where he used to live and had a whisky distillery.” His aunt’s book is full of stories about local people and the stories behind the place names, places and hill tracks that people used to walk to get about before the age of the car. Und auf einmal ist es Mitte April. With good weather this day’s walking may provide the best views so far as the distant view of Beinn Eighe, shining white with quartzite, signals that you have definitely entered the realm of the ancient Torridon peaks. I'd read tons of trail descriptions and copied multiple ones to my kindle. Ein Weg, dem der Wanderer einfach folgen könnte, ist nur im geringen Maße zu finden. Although the track is yet to be noted by the OS Explorer map for this area, it is marked by a big Scottish Rights of Way Society sign on the road about a kilometre south of Gerry’s Hostel. Yet when we talked about his route, it became obvious that we were following different trails to the same destination. The Cape Wrath Trail Knoydart Expedition gives you the chance to walk the first 4 days of the Cape Wrath Trail, from Fort William to Kinloch Hourn. After skirting Killilan the path leads into Glen Ling, following the River Ling which descends via waterfalls under a cliff face. Just before Gulvain you turn left off the track and begin the gentle ascent north over boggy ground to a rocky outcrop called Gualann nan Osna. Ultrapacking on the Cape Wrath Trail . As I had lunch by the unruffled black water the silence was broken by a startling eerie cry. Die letzten Tage laufe ich nicht mehr allein. Am Morgen des Abflugs schlafe ich immerhin bis halb vier (der Wecker geht um sechs). The Cape Wrath Trail is considered the hardest hiking route in the United Kingdom. At the top the path breaks out into open moorland with clear views over to Beinn Eighe. Schottland ist im Vergleich zu meinen letzten Trekkingtouren in Polarkreisnähe dabei schon fast südliches Gefilde. From here you are on an undemanding descent to the formal gardens at Attadale at the north end of Loch Carron. B&H state that they didn’t test the “viability” of this route; well, it is viable and a little further along it delivers you straight to the White Falls Retreat bunkhouse and cottages at Camas-luinie. After an age, you meet up with the hard, formal path coming down Glen Undalain and this delivers you directly to the campsite at Shiel Bridge. The map showed a building to the south of the loch and I wondered whether it was a bothy. The second chance to get lost comes after you’ve reached Lochan Fada and are asked to navigate a short distance to a second, out-of-sight, body 0f water, the much smaller Loch Meallan an Fhudair. Cape Wrath Trail Gear List. With my trekking poles lost or broken, and the compass having been dropped somewhere beside the River Carnach, I didn’t at this point feel like I should be trusted with the navigation of the Beardmore Glacier. Another CWT sight worth writing home about: the falls at Easan Dorcha near the Coulin Pass. Und die Kamera? I took their advice and soon started to rue the decision since it entailed a two-hour plod over rough ankle-breaking terrain. Der Trail Der Cape Wrath Trail ist kein offizieller Fernwanderweg. And their names, they said, were Mary and Joseph. I was fortunate to do it on a day of blazing sunshine. A new guide by Iain Harper, just published by Cicerone (April 2013), should also increase its popularity – which is good for bunkhouse owners, not so good for walkers seeking splendid isolation in the Highlands. Nach der zweiten Nacht am Strand setzen wir den Rucksack zum letzten Mal auf. In June, the main drawback of the bothy was that I had walk a good quarter of a mile back to the River Finiskaig to collect fresh water because the springs around the bothy had dried up. Since I’d walked a few miles of B&H’s recommended route north of Strathcarron the day before, after setting up the tent at the hotel, I didn’t feel too guilty about missing the tiring trudge up the road. 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