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08 Loch Oich & Caledonian Canal Highland

DISTANCE: 10.7 MILES/17.3KM

TIME: 6 HOURS LEVEL: MODERATE ASCENT: 78M

TERRAIN: Generally flat with a few short ascents and descents. Follows the Great Glen Way, so well-signed on towpaths, woodland trails and grassy tracks.

The natural faultline of the Great Glen Way washes across Scotland in a series of beautiful lochs, which were linked by Thomas Telford’s Caledonian Canal in 1822,

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