22. Jun 2025

Fort Williams - Kinlochleven

Photo 1: "The West Highland Way"
This is a very beautiful and popular long distance hiking path through Scotland from Fort Williams to Glasgow, but it is not very easy. I will average walking 28,5 km with 927 altimeters the next six days.

Photo 2: "Ahmad from Saudi Arabia"
Most people walk the West Highland way from Glasgow to Fort Williams. So all week I will have people coming from the other way in my direction. This presents many opportunities to speak and pray with people and to share my story. Among the talks I had today, there were three special encountets, with Luzia from Germany, a group of young people from France and Ahmad from Saudi Arbabia pictured here.

Photo 3: "Broken walking stick"
I decided to take my wife's walking sticks on this trip, because they were easier to pack away for the flight to Scotland and for the upcoming three ferry trips from Scotland to Ireland, from Ireland to Wales and from England to France. Before leaving for Scotland, I must have damaged the one pole when I changed the tips. It broke right at that point without any other evident cause. Good walking sticks on a foot journey like this are essiential. They help carry the load of a backpack, relieve the pressure on your foot and leg joints while walking and are like having two extra legs to push you uphill or to brace your step going downhill. Fortunately I was able to plug the broken point with a Rubber tip as a temporary solution until I would find new walking sticks.

Photo 4: "Two sheep"
The later in the day I walked, the less traffic came my way. I enjoyed this these late afternoon hours to sing my pilgrim song, pray for Scotland and to behold the beauty of God's creation.

Photo 5: "Wild camp"
Since the weather was good this evening, I decided to go up one more hill. It was a high one and just about doubled the altimeters for the day, but would shave off 4 km and several hundred kolometers for tomorrow's walk. I had food and water with me and slept very well on the side of the mountain.