{"id":730,"date":"2019-07-16T19:27:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T19:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/?p=730"},"modified":"2019-07-16T19:27:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T19:27:09","slug":"one-way-or-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/2019\/07\/16\/one-way-or-another\/","title":{"rendered":"One way or another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 92 of the End to End was my last day on the West Highland Way. It has been a real roller-coaster of emotions and a switchback of a route. Today it began with cloud shrouding the tops of the mountains which yesterday were clear.<br \/>\nI began at that shelter at Blar a Chaorainn,  which is pretty near the middle of nowhere. The track winds up and down through woodland that was cut down sometime in the recent past. Sheep wander about and plants grow among the stumps and abandoned branches and unwanted trunks. It&#8217;s a weird landscape and didn&#8217;t receive much positive feedback from those walkers who commented on it. Each stump bears its own decorations or heather, moss and lichen except for those that are bare enough to sit on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_1616.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_1616.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-728 alignnone size-full\" width=\"3920\" height=\"2204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_1616.jpg 3920w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_1616-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_1616-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_1616-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_1616-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere were quite a few miles of this and a cheese sandwich to keep me going. The views of Ben Nevis got clearer as the clouds lifted so eventually I could see the path up the mountain from the other side of the valley.<br \/>\nI emerged onto a forestry track near the remains of an Iron Age hillfort.  Then it was downhill from there.  Bob met me near the road and we dropped into the Glen Nevis Visitor Centre for an ice cream. The centre is well placed for would be Ben Nevis walkers and has plenty of pertinent information. The 10 mile return route looked a bit too much for us today. I think I&#8217;d also need to improve my ant impersonation abilities for the very steep bits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_1644.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_1644.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-729 alignnone size-full\" width=\"3920\" height=\"2204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_1644.jpg 3920w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_1644-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_1644-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_1644-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_1644-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe made our way back towards Fort William but before getting to the town we took a small footbridge across the river Nevis and wound our way round to pick up the Great Glen Way without too much difficulty, going past the railway sidings. We crossed the Soldiers Bridge to end the day at Lochyside.<br \/>\nI had now swapped one way for another: from the West Highland Way to the Great Glen Way.  The former was probably the most demanding route so far on the End to End. I was looking for the Great Glen Way to be a little less so.<\/p>\n<p>From Psalm 139<br \/>\n<i><br \/>\nIf I flew away beyond the east or lived in the farthest place in the west, you would be there to lead me and help me.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>East or West, God knows these routes better than we ever shall. Even our own capabilities are better known by God than we are often able to assess ourselves.<br \/>\nI saw a stone on which one word had been painted. The word was &#8216;soar&#8217;. Let&#8217;s try it.<\/p>\n<p><b>God grant a quiet night and a peaceful end.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>JAL 16.0.2019<br \/>\nDay 92 of the End to End from Blar a Chaorainn to Lochyside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 92 of the End to End was my last day on the West Highland Way. It has been a real roller-coaster of emotions and a switchback of a route. Today it began with cloud shrouding the tops of the mountains which yesterday were clear. I began at that shelter at Blar a Chaorainn, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/2019\/07\/16\/one-way-or-another\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One way or another&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}