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The Great Glen Way Map Booklet

1:25,000 OS Route Mapping

ISBN

9781852848958

Availability

Published

14 Mar 2016

Reprinted

2 Sept 2024

Edition

First

Pages

Size

16.60 x 10.60 x .30cm

Weight

60g

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Map of the 79 mile (124km) Great Glen Way (one of Scotland's Great Trails), between Fort William and Inverness. This booklet is included with the Cicerone guidebook to the trail, and shows the full route on Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 maps. The route typically takes a week to walk, and is suitable for walkers at all levels of experience.

Seasons

Low-lying, so it is possible to walk the Great Glen Way at most times of year. Accommodation is often busy in summer, and midges are out! Daylight is short in winter with fewer accommodation options.

Centres

Inverness, Drumnadrochit, Invermoriston, Fort Augustus, North Laggan, Gairlochy, Fort William

Difficulty

The Great Glen Way is 5-6 day low-level waymarked National Trail, with a range of facilities along the way. An ideal introduction to long-distance walking.

Must See

Views of the highlands, fascinating clan history, Caledonian canal, wildlife (including, possibly, the Loch Ness monster)

ISBN

9781852848958

Availability

Published

14 Mar 2016

Reprinted

2 Sept 2024

Edition

First

Pages

Size

16.60 x 10.60 x .30cm

Weight

60g

Overview

A booklet of all the mapping needed to complete the Great Glen Way, one of Scotland’s Great Trails. The 120km (74 mile) route between Fort William and Inverness is suitable for those new to long-distance walking and can be completed within a week.

The full route line is shown on 1:25,000 OS maps
The map booklet can be used to walk the trail in either direction
Sized to easily fit in a jacket pocket
The relevant extract from the OS Explorer map legend is included
Includes low and high-level options for two stages and an alternative route via Invergarry
An accompanying Cicerone guidebook – The Great Glen Way is also available, which includes a copy of this map booklet

Table of Contents

Contents
Key to map pages
Stage 1 Fort William to Gairlochy
Stage 2 Gairlochy to Laggan Locks
Stage 3 Laggan Locks to Fort Augustus
Invergarry Link
Stage 2A Gairlochy to Invergarry
Stage 3A Invergarry to Fort Augustus
Stage 4A Fort Augustus to Invermoriston (high-level)
Stage 4B Fort Augustus to Invermoriston (low-level)
Stage 5A Invermoriston to Drumnadrochit (high-level)
Stage 5B Invermoriston to Drumnadrochit (low-level)
Stage 6 Drumnadrochit to Inverness
OS Explorer map legend

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By Paddy Dillon

Paddy Dillon is a prolific walker and guidebook writer, with over 100 guidebooks to his name and contributions to 40 other titles. He has written for several outdoor magazines and other publications and has appeared on radio and television.Paddy uses a tablet computer to write as he walks. His descriptions are therefore precise, having been written at the very point at which the reader uses them.Paddy is an indefatigable long-distance walker who has walked all of Britain's National Trails and several European trails. He has also walked in Nepal, Tibet, Korea and the Rocky Mountains of Canada and the US.

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