Great Glen Way

Walk or cycle the Great Glen

Jacquetta Megarry, Sandra Bardwell

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Rucksack Readers
29 July 2024

Cycling; Walking, hiking, trekking

The Great Glen Way is one of Scotland's Great Trails and offers a superb experience for both walkers and cyclists. The Way runs for 77 miles (124 km) along Scotland's Great Glen between Fort William and Inverness. It follows the scenic Caledonian Canal and runs beside four of the Highlands' loveliest lochs - including Loch Ness, famous for its monster legend and for Urquhart Castle.

The route has been enhanced with several High Route options, most recently the 2024 Abriachan High Route taking walkers to a new high point at 434 m/1425 ft. The new edition covers this option and shows it in mapping.

This edition was revised in late April 2024 and covers several important route updates for 2024-25: the Invergarry link route is mandatory until Loch Oichside reopens in 2025, the Fort Augustus to Invermoriston High Route is closed until summer 2024 and the approach to Inverness has changed around Craig Dunain. The book is in our slim pocket-friendly format, with perfect binding (glued and sewn) and still on rainproof paper.

This guidebook contains all you need to plan and enjoy the Great Glen Way - on foot or on a bike:

detailed mapping on 13 pages at 1:38,000 hill and mountain side-trips including Ben Nevis background on canal heritage, clan history and wildlife detailed description for each section walked from Fort William to Inverness summaries showing distance, terrain, food/drink stops and altitude profile planning information for walkers and cyclists town plans of Fort William and Inverness in full colour, with 100+ photos, many of them new rucksack-friendly and on rainproof paper.

By: Jacquetta Megarry, Sandra Bardwell
Imprint: Rucksack Readers
Edition: 7th ed.
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 141g
ISBN: 9781913817244
ISBN 10: 1913817245
Pages: 84
Publication Date: 29 July 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jacquetta discovered long-distance walking and trekking only after completing the West Highland Way. In 1998 she progressed to Mount Kilimanjaro, which she has summited four times by different routes. In 2000, she founded Rucksack Readers, a series of over 40 rucksack-friendly guidebooks for adventurous walkers and cyclists that can be used in real weather. She has personally hiked nearly all of the routes. Her photographs appear in many of these books and she edits the whole range for consistency, challenge and fun. A dedicated lifelong walker, Sandra worked in Melbourne, Australia, as an archivist and historian after doing a PhD on the history of national parks in her home state of Victoria. In her spare time she wrote a regular column about bushwalking (hiking) in Melbourne's leading daily newspaper, and many articles and books on walking and national parks in south-eastern Australia (1977-89).Sandra moved to Scotland in 1989, and she still lives in Drumnadrochit beside Loch Ness.