“Lucky you!”

The Cape Wrath Trail is known, in a somewhat tongue-in-cheek way, as the UK’s hardest trail. I just got back from walking/running it last week,¹ and by and large had a wonderful time. Right at the start of the first stage, there was a snatched conversation with a guy fixing a house:

“Off on the Cape Wrath Trail?”

“Yes!”

“Lucky you!”

Lucky me indeed! There were ups and downs, but the former far outweighed the latter. I talked about my experience with Rob from the fantastic “Notes from Big Trails” podcast, covering planning, online hype, top tips, wildlife sightings, and much more. It was great fun to record, and hopefully contains some useful information for anyone curious as to what the trail is actually like.

Since the above is a non-visual medium, here are a few of my favorite views. Apologies for the portrait formatting.

There is a lot of chat about bogs in the podcast, mirroring the online discourse about the trail, and walking in the Highlands more generally. A representative sample follows. Note that these are all directly on the trail; I didn’t cheat.