The Great Glen. The very name conjures up images of heather-clad slopes and still, dark waters of fresh and seawater lochs. Take a look at any map of the UK and the Glen is one of the most obvious natural landmarks – a giant scar that’s visible from space, seemingly splitting Scotland in two.
For those who love their geology, step back some 400 million years or so when the very land mass of the islands we call home was as shifting sands…the north west of what is now Scotland moving in an opposite, diagonal direction to the land to the south east. The resulting ‘fault’ has since been subjected to millennia of weathering, not least of all the last ice age, creating a coast-to-coast ‘valley’ that’s just waiting to be explored.
The official route of the Great Glen Way takes visitors from Fort William in the south west to Inverness in the north east. As lovers of the coast, we’ll make the most by starting and ending our journey of discovery a little further out - at both ends.
Fort William is at the eastern end of Loch Linnhe - the sea loch at the opening to the Great Glen. And right
