MONDAY 03 SEPTEMBER

Beautiful day. Set out at full steam to climb the Devil's Staircase. Every one had warned me this would be difficult. Ken Bonsor (from Armathwaite) told me it was much easier than the beginning of Skiddaw - he was right - it was less than half the difficulty.

After that it was a wonderful walk with magnificent view of the Glen Coe mountains. I saw lots of familiar faces along the way.

Arrived at Kinlochleven at 2pm. Jeremy arrived at 5.30pm. He was a bit cross because I hadn't given him details of where we were staying - and the mobile phone signal wasn't working. Anyway, I found him loitering in the village and all was well! We went to the pub for tea and probably we stayed too long. Met up others I'd met on the way.

Bob & Chris at the B & B have very kindly let me have the use of their laptop to update the blog. So, tomorrow should be the last day. Jeremy is going to take the car to Fort William and then walk to meet me for lunch.

Now, only 14 miles to go...