Today's stats: 14.6 miles, 374' elevation gain, 1,161' elevation loss
We made it again! Peg said of today's hike "There's no such thing as an easy 14.6 miles but if there was today was the day. It is a good thing as yesterday's hike beat her up a little and she was concerned about the distance today. In looking at the elevation profile it looked to be a good day if the trails were good. The trails in fact were excellent and we made great time arriving here a little after 3:00.
About 25% of the hike today was on roads which is always hard on the knees but there was very little up or down hill. Much of the hike was in a heavily wooded area on old cattle drove trails from the 1700s. When we first caught sight of Inverness we still had 4 1/2 miles to go to the Inverness Castle which is the official end point of The Great Way.
All we could talk about for the last couple of miles was how we were looking forward to a very long, very hot shower. When we arrived at the Craigside Lodge B&B no one was home so we went to a nearby pub for a celebratory glass of wine and beer. We were back at the B&B just before 4:00 and still no one home. About 4:10 our hostess arrived and explained that checkin time was 4:00. Our literature made no mention of time and the latest published checkin time we had seen was 3:00. Oh well. We are now happily showered and will be having our celebration dinner at 6:30 just across the street.
Two things you all should know...it rained again today so we have had one rain free day since July 10 and that Peg KICKED ASS!!!!
Tomorrow we take a train to Edinburgh where we will be enjoying the celebration of Festival Days and we will be attending the Edinburgh Military Tattoo on Monday night.
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