| Comment | My top tip, if you're wild camping, don't have a schedule - both because a) you're not really going to know what speed/distance your body is happy with and b) you might stumble across some spots you really fancy stopping over in but aren't on your 'itinerary'.
If you're reasonably fit, the 7+ day 'typical' itinerary is really, really slow. That's only about 13 miles a day, with no real hills involved, so really that's only about 4-5 hours even at a moderate pace, you can be done by lunchtime. Of course, you can smell the roses and take that time, but just highlighting that the 'typical' recommended daily mileage ends up with a hell of a lot of time sat around a tent doing bugger all, which isn't much fun in rain and midges.
I've been doing a lot of outdoorsy stuff since lockdown ended, just back from a bit of hiking and camping in the Cairngorms, and just to warn you that with the lack of foreign holidays the 'famous' hills and walks are absolutely heaving right now, with police closing rural roads and carparks due to unmanageable volumes of traffic and 'wild' camping. Personally I'd recommend doing one of the other long-distance paths than the WHW until it's calmed down a bit. |
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