Among the heathy hills and ragged woods… – Robert Burns, ‘Lines on the Fall of Fyers near Loch-Ness, written with a pencil on the spot, 1787’
The Longest Day: Summer Solstice on the Great Glen Way
Land’s End to John O’Groats
Slip, heave, throw: The Great Glen Way
Slip is defined as the relative movement of geological features present on either side of a fault plane. A fault’s sense of slip is defined as the relative motion of the rock on each side of the fault with respect to the other side. In measuring the horizontal or vertical separation, the throw of the fault is the vertical component of the separation and the heave of the fault is the horizontal component, as in “Throw up and heave out”. – Wikipedia article on Geological Faults
A brief update
The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley. – Robert Burns
Escape
Sitting it out
Through the brunt wind that dented the balls of my eyes
The tent of the hills drummed and strained its guyrope… Ted Hughes, ‘Wind’
A Bridge Too Far
A bridge wants not to be. If it could choose its shape, a bridge would be no shape, an in space to link One-place-town to Another-place-town over a river … – China Miéville, This Census-Taker
Final Rest Day Photo Essay
Fort William and the end of the West Highland Way
Activity and rest are two vital aspects of life. To find a balance in them is a skill in itself. Wisdom is knowing when to have rest, when to have activity, and how much of each to have. – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Continue reading Fort William and the end of the West Highland Way
The Mighty Heart of Glencoe
From scenes like these old Scotia’s grandeur springs. – Robert Burns
A Big Country
…it is to this mental tonic, even more than to the bracing air of the heights, that we owe the unwearied spirit which nerves us to walk more leagues upon the mountains than we could walk miles upon the plain. For in the lowlands we walk with the body only; in the highlands we walk with the mind. – Henry Stephens Salt
Walking The Landscape 