So this is it. The final day. The 8 prior days have been building up to this, the pinnacle of the walk for me – the finish in Fort William and a chance to see Ben Nevis. It had been our plan to walk up Ben Nevis in the coming days, weather permitting, although other events conspired to put a stop to that.

Shortly after leaving Kinlochleven a path appeared on the right, beckoning us up a path into the woods. At this stage of the day, and in keeping with much of the walk, the weather threatened and we had the odd bit of drizzle to contend with.

Fairly quickly we reached a break in the tree line which afforded us our first views of the day. This picture was taken looking south east towards Kinlochleven and a brief glimpse of Loch Leven itself.

At this point the cloud started to lift a little, albeit it was still quite threatening.

The path flattened and widened, exposing the valley. To the left lay Beinn na Caillich (762m) and to the right was Stob Coire na h-Eirghe (738m).

Various old and abandonned buildings were to be found en route, presumably offering shelter to passers-by in prior days.

What was notable on the week’s walk was that (a) everyone seemed to be walking south to north, (b) everyone had about the same amount of walking in them each day, probably more down to a lack of accommodation than anything else, and (c) everyone set off about the same time as each other.

The upshot of this was that we kept bumping into the same people every day and struck up quite the friendship with them. Here’s two such friends trudging up from the lock.

Still the rain kept away and allowed us views towards the west.

After many hours of walking, including a fairly hard bit along the road in Fort William and through the town, we made it to the end of the route. Here’s us doing the customary pose on the bench at the end of Fort William High Street.