Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The lone Highlander atop the Glenfinnan Monument, situated on the edge of Loch Shiel, is just one of many sites that hikers, ...

Graeme, the duty manager at the YHA hostel in Crianlarich, raises an eyebrow as I dump my dripping pack by the door. It’s been dark for several hours already, it’s raining heavily, and he clearly wasn ...

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Editor’s note: Mark Lorenzoni is writing about his eight-day hike on the West Highland Way, a 96-mile path that runs along the lochs and Highlands of Scotland. Lorenzoni completed the hike with his ...

Editor’s note: Over the next several Saturdays, Mark Lorenzoni will be writing about his eight-day hike on the West Highland Way, a 96-mile path that runs along the lochs and Highlands of Scotland.

I first heard about the West Highland Way, Scotland’s first official long distance hiking route, in the mid 1990s, but it took me nearly 30 years to walk it. Growing up in Glasgow, I started doing ...