I'd always wanted to walk the Skye trail, a 127km route which winds it's way through the length of the Isle of Skye, finishing at Rubha Hunish, a remote headland at the island's most northerly point. However, the one thing that held me back was that is just wasn't long enough for this hyperactive fool. I needed something a little more challenging so I managed to conjure up a route which started on the East coast, and took me up and over the highlands down to the West coast where I could catch a tiny ferry the few hundred metres over to Skye. My journey started in Inverness following the Great Glen way on the shores of Loch Ness. I then headed west on the Affric-Kintail Way, but after a while I was called by the massive peaks of the Sgùrr nan Ceathreamhnan range so got a little sidetracked running about up there. I came back down to Glen Affric, walked to the tiny Skye turntable ferry and eventually linked up to the start of the Skye Trail. 210 miles all in all, and an absolutely spectacular route.
