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  1. Original post
    Fred R
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    To my surprise, when I tentatively suggested to my partner that we trog
    the West Highland Way next Eastertime, she agreed, so it looks like
    we're on. There's a colleague at work who's already done it with hubby
    and friends for charity (her hubby's got a site at
    http://www.noel-paton.co.uk/ with a rambling - pun intended :o) - blog
    of their experiences) and I'm picking her brains, particularly on places
    to stay. For instance, she reckons the Bridge of Orchy bunkhouse was
    disgusting and they were treated like dirt, and the Inversnaid Hotel
    sucks the big one, and it's that sort of info I could do with, with the
    usual allowances for accuracy of course...

    So, could someone recommend a decent, portable printed guide to the WHW,
    with stage details, useful phone numbers, possible places to stay, etc?
    And/or any (we)blogs? Looking through postings on this NG for the last
    couple of years, one person set up a site at
    http://www.alternative-whw.com but that now fails a DNS lookup so is
    either dead or temporarily down. I'm sure that there are stacks of
    books, websites and blogs on the Way, but it would be nice to have a few
    that folk consider to be reliable and halfway accurate. It would also be
    useful to have recommendations/info on 'sherpa' services, as if I don't
    find some way of humping our luggage from one stage to the next I'm
    going to have to schlepp it all myself as Herself has a bad back, and I
    don't fancy humping a 65L rucksack packed to bursting all 95 miles.

    As it happens, I know the area North of Crianlarich pretty well, having
    done plenty of mountain walkies up there, so I've got some good ideas as
    to where to stay and, as importantly, where to drink (such as the
    Tailrace in Kinlochleven, and of course the Grog & Gruel in Fort
    William), but my knowledge of areas South of that is a bit skimpy.

    Cheers

    Fred
    --
    Walkies blog to follow soon at http://www.fredriley.org.uk/weblog/walkies.html

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  2. Richard Spencer
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    Quoted message said:

    So, could someone recommend a decent, portable printed guide to the WHW,
    with stage details, useful phone numbers, possible places to stay, etc?

    I did it with the OS/Aurium "The West Highland Way", which, when we did
    it was £12.99.

    Map sections, printed in the book on near enough every page, so you
    don't really need a seperate map or maps, but we did find a seperate map
    in a plastic cover, with strips of the whole route useful - can't find
    it now, but it wasn't very different from the excellent Harvey's version
    which comes with the rather serious (for planning, rather than for
    walking with) Mercat Press /SNH "Official Guide".

    Memory-Map do a CD issue of the whole of the route, with a reasonable
    distance either side on 1:25k OS mapping, which I bought from Tiso,
    after we'd done the walk at a good price, which might suggest that it
    was not being re-done.

    Great walk - have fun! It makes or mars a relationship.

    Richard

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  3. Fred R
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    Richard Spencer said:

    The message
    <[email hidden]>
    from Fred R <[email hidden]> contains these words:

    Quoted message said:

    So, could someone recommend a decent, portable printed guide to the WHW,
    with stage details, useful phone numbers, possible places to stay, etc?

    I did it with the OS/Aurium "The West Highland Way", which, when we did
    it was £12.99.

    Map sections, printed in the book on near enough every page, so you
    don't really need a seperate map or maps, but we did find a seperate map
    in a plastic cover, with strips of the whole route useful - can't find
    it now, but it wasn't very different from the excellent Harvey's version
    which comes with the rather serious (for planning, rather than for
    walking with) Mercat Press /SNH "Official Guide".

    Thanks for the tips, Richard - I'll have a look for these in
    Waterstone's this weekend.

    Quoted message said:

    Great walk - have fun! It makes or mars a relationship.

    !! Oh my! Reckon I'd best be at my most diplomatic and supportive on the
    trek, rather than my usual grumbling, swearing, farting self, then, or
    she might give me up in disgust and trade me in for a more refined
    model...

    Fred
    --
    Walkies blog to follow soon at http://www.fredriley.org.uk/weblog/walkies.html

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  4. james
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    Hello,

    we did the WHW, Ben Lomond and Ben Nevis from August 24th to the 3rd
    September this year. We used the Trail Blazers guide and the Harveys Map ,
    both are very good, and include the two peaks we did. However the trail is
    very well marked and the map was used to plot where we were and hw far to go
    and not to navigate.

    Its been one of my most memorable experiences and cant wait to do it again,
    we didn't use the bag carrying service and carried everything including
    tents , stove ect but next time will think about the service.

    Have a good one.

    James

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    The message
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    from Fred R <[email hidden]> contains these
    words:

    Quoted message said:

    So, could someone recommend a decent, portable printed guide to the WHW,
    with stage details, useful phone numbers, possible places to stay, etc?

    I did it with the OS/Aurium "The West Highland Way", which, when we did
    it was £12.99.

    Map sections, printed in the book on near enough every page, so you
    don't really need a seperate map or maps, but we did find a seperate map
    in a plastic cover, with strips of the whole route useful - can't find
    it now, but it wasn't very different from the excellent Harvey's version
    which comes with the rather serious (for planning, rather than for
    walking with) Mercat Press /SNH "Official Guide".

    Memory-Map do a CD issue of the whole of the route, with a reasonable
    distance either side on 1:25k OS mapping, which I bought from Tiso,
    after we'd done the walk at a good price, which might suggest that it
    was not being re-done.

    Great walk - have fun! It makes or mars a relationship.

    Richard

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