The Cape Wrath Trail is a ~240 mile mini thru hike
crossing the mountains and circling the lochs of north west Scotland.
While it has “trail” in the title, there is no such official route; rather the CWT is a collection
of tracks, paths and unmarked ways which walkers thread together, however they choose, to chart their own course from
Fort William to Cape Wrath, at the north-westernmost point of the UK mainland (or the reverse
if you decide to do it southbound).
I was supposed to be alone for 2 weeks in the Arctic Circle this year, but oh well.
When I was looking for a solo hiking/camping trip to do this year, I knew that I wanted it to be in Norway.
I had never been, and I knew that it is a multi-day hiker’s dream. Deciding on a route was the first challenge:
the Norwegian Trekking Association (aka DNT) is not playing around, and there are around 22,000km of
maintained and marked trails which thread the length of the country.
