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Gavin Macfie
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 30 พ.ค. 2017
Scottish National Trail Part 3 River Loyne to Cape Wrath
On Sunday 23/06/24 I completed the Scottish National Trail in 15d 22h 26m. In total my route added up to 884.7 km and 19923 m of ascent, averaging 55 km per day, with the longest day just shy of 69 km. Basically an ultramarathon every day for over 2 weeks, all while carrying a pack.
My style was lightweight but not fully ultralight backpacking, walking rather than running. I wild camped throughout apart from one night in Blackburn bothy.
I was self supported - in the earlier stages I lived off the land, then picked up a 3 day cache just outside Fort Augustus. A second cache at Inverlael was compromised by pine martens, necessitating a return taxi ride to Ullapool to resupply.
I came in just over 2 days slower than Matt Girvan's 2020 self supported FKT of 13d 19h 35m, but was fully 2 days faster than Graham Nash's 2015 supported run, which was the time that Matt was aiming to beat when he set out.
The journey is presented in three stages, this is the third, from the River Loyne to Cape Wrath, 276.8 km over 5.5 days.
My style was lightweight but not fully ultralight backpacking, walking rather than running. I wild camped throughout apart from one night in Blackburn bothy.
I was self supported - in the earlier stages I lived off the land, then picked up a 3 day cache just outside Fort Augustus. A second cache at Inverlael was compromised by pine martens, necessitating a return taxi ride to Ullapool to resupply.
I came in just over 2 days slower than Matt Girvan's 2020 self supported FKT of 13d 19h 35m, but was fully 2 days faster than Graham Nash's 2015 supported run, which was the time that Matt was aiming to beat when he set out.
The journey is presented in three stages, this is the third, from the River Loyne to Cape Wrath, 276.8 km over 5.5 days.
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Hi , really enjoyed watching. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it, please share if you think your friends would like it too
Great video!
Thanks!
You want to be a singer? Don't give up the day job 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I bet they said the same to the young Bob Dylan 😂😂😂😂😂
Cheers Paul. I used Memory Map For All on iPhone for the southern sections with the Walkhighlands routes downloaded. From Clunaie north I knew the country well enough that I didn't need any navigational help. No paper maps or analogue compass carried, though I did have redundancy in the form of the maps on my Garmin watch.
Very informative Gavin. How did you choose to navigate whilst doing this? 👍
What is phone signal like along the trail? Really enjoyed the video, hope to do this trail in the future
There's a fair bit but also many blank spots
Enjoyed that cheers. I walked this back in 1998 with myog ultralight kit cos you couldn't buy the stuff back then! Took me 7 days but i started at Glen Finnan as thats where it used to start. Used a tarp and headnet approach like the Germans but the trail is blessed with plenty of bothies. It wasn't so established back then so my route differed a bit from today's route. It would be nice if making your own way north was more encouraged. Well done on your trip. You definitely had better weather than on my trek 🌧⛈️🌧
Clue is in the title i.e. how can I get this walk out of the way asap, not impressed.
Each to their own...
Great achievement well done. What camera did you use?
iPhone 14
As someone said a no nonsense video. An enjoyable watch. What boots did you wear.
No boots, trail runners are what’s required for fastpacking. I use Inov8 roclites
Jeez louise! Brilliant effort 👌 Brilliantly filmed to boot. Thanks for sharing 👍
Well done mate that's some achievement! What tent did you use?
it's a tarptent protrail li. Needs imported from USA.
Hi Gavin, congratulations on your achievement. I'm very glad I came across this video of yours. It's great to get a nice concise report that nevertheless has some snippets of info useful for planning. I am hoping to do the trail this year in May but will be allowing myself quite a few more days than you! I'm definitely more in alignment with your lighter weight approach than the heavyweights you met en-route and I'd be interest to see your gear list if you happened to have it on lighterpack for example.
Keep all your great work up 🎉🎉🎉
I did the trail in May so know how hard it is... Doing it in the time you did is nothing short of amazing. Well done, seriously impressive.
Wow! Completing it in that time is a huge acheivement on it's own, but also filming it, amazing!!! You even seemed to make it into the Cape Wrath Pub Crawl! Thanks so much for the insight of what it's like to do it in such a short time!
Abs. Braw trip... Ye made it look easy..!!! Respect.
Wow. Congratulations. You must have feet made out of iron!
Excellent work.
Great achievement!
Now that’s what I call a no nonsense video. No silly music, straight to the point, I loved it all. I’ve done the walk in double the time and some. Brilliant job !!! Now I need a lie down.
Cheers Craig. I enjoyed Hazey's series too, well worth a look for those who haven't seen it yet.
I tip my hat to you sir, Incredible achievement. Haze outdoors done a good nine part series on this but good to see an 'all-in-one' video