Off beaten track

And, too, the heavy trudge of boots which used to stamp upon it in pursuit of sheep or cattle. Or else stumbling back homewards just before the black of night consumed the borders of a bog stretching wide before soles, the perils of a loch, perhaps, where a neighbour drowned. Sphagnum moss, above all, stores the footsteps of those who are now lost, those residents and denizens of moor for whom moss feels an absence, their drum of feet no longer pounding desolation like a heartbeat any more. ----From a poem by Donald S Murray The West Highland Way is an iconic walk in Scotland steeped in history with constantly changing beautiful scenery; it is also the longest in Scotland, starting in Milngavie, a suburb of Glasgow and ending at 96  miles   (154 km) muscle aching, feet hurting, but proud, in Fort William . The trail meanders along some of the most breath taking terrain in the Highlands, taking in varied landscapes of lochs, highlands, forests, bubbling burns and waterfalls. A well mark