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Distance: 24km (600m), total of 85km
Time on the trail: 10 hrs
Planned route: map

Today we left our lovely B&B loaded up with ‘the full Scottish’ (breakfast) around 10:30 so we had a fairly late start. We followed our planned route along minor roads before climbing to join the Puggle Line, a dismantled railway. The track was a mix of lush grass, hard packed rock and swamp bog. The views traversing around all the valleys would have been nice if the sunshine persisted for more than 10 minutes at a time :(. Around 1pm we stopped for lunch and brewed up some soup. While we were sitting we saw two other hikers joining our trail from across the river. We soon caught up with them meeting Marion and Graham, two Scots on their fifth challenge. Like most other people we’ve met, they have great tales of good weather 🙂

We walked with them on and off through the small hamlet of Fersit and on through the woods. Our plan was to camp in the woods but we pushed on through to make our next two days into Kingussie more reasonable. We eventually made camp by the side of the river after ‘negotiating’ the deer fence :). What a lovely spot it was too – right by the river, under the shelter of trees and hidden from any other hikers :). After a quick and fairly disgusting dinner of spicy mince with beef we hit the hay.