Laggan Locks Revisited

22 September 2012 - Laggan Locks

Distance - 7.86 miles

Weather - Clear and Bright

True to our word, we came back to finish the half mile of the LEJOG that we couldn't walk earlier in the year because of logging. Although it was actually only half a mile that we missed, we felt we had to walk it, as otherwise we could never really claim to have walked all the way from Lands End to John O'Groats. Daft I know, but if a jobs worth doing...

It was a wonderful day when we set off from Stirling in my little Smart car. It was one of those bright, clear autumn days when the sky is just totally blue and the lochs act as perfect mirrors for the mountains at their edges. In short it was a glorious day.

We parked at Laggan Locks and had lunch at The Eagle barge - perhaps not as much as we would have liked to have eaten. We forgot that they only took cash and so had to pool our limited resources and choose wisely from the menu!

After that we walked out to the spot where the path closure occurred (where we had to get into the forestry Landrover), then did the return leg back to the car. We walked back further than we needed to, just to ensure all the lines would match up on out GPS track of our LEJOG journey. It was amazing to see how the hillsides had been stripped clean of any trees. There were huge culverts and still piles of logs stacked by the side of the track in places, but we walked there and back with no fuss. I then drove us back to Stirling.