Look easy on the map … how wrong was I.
If you see the grass bushes on the map it indicates marsh / bog terrain. And I had to go 15km through that today …
All in all I was completely exhausted and spend 11 hours walking … and people who know me also know that I typically do not take breaks or only short ones.
Saw lots of frogs and beetles today though … on the positive note 😉
Kept walking up for about 500 am along some spectacular waterfalls and still enough water … I am positively surprised.
Almost on top I suddenly saw a person in front of me taking a break … on this path? Actually not a path … just on the map, but likely not walked for months.
And guess who it was?
Immo from Berlin, who virtually “saved” my live in 2021 when customs had unknowingly to me taken my gas cartridge and he gave me his spare one.
In 2023 I met a lonely guy sitting at a table waiting for the Cafe at Kinnloch Rannoch to open … was Immo (paid my debt back by inviting him for breakfast)!
And now 2025 day 8 in one of the remotest places you can meet someone!
Wonder where we will meet in 2027 — this is certainly one of the oddest things — don’t meet anyone else for days and then Immo again … and both of us started at different places, different days and did not know the tour of the other. Hope you come visit me in our scottish house one-time … open invitation for you!
After a short chat and some walking together he left to Blair Atholl and I went up another hill to start my 15km cross the marsh terrain.
But everything has an end … and around 19:00 I reached my planned campsite location.
And my learnings:
- TGOC is magical with unexplainable surprises
- Boggy terrain is a real pain when it had not rained for 3 weeks … imagine if it previously had rained for many days.
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