I have finished re-plotting the route, incorporating the changes that we made on the ground. The result is that, per Anquet, we walked 979 miles from St Margaret’s to Cape Wrath (the reality was probably a little bit further – some of our lines were far more wiggly than plotted on the map!), and 994.5 miles if you count the walk out to Durness.
Taking 57 walking days over our adventure, that comes out at an average of just over 17 miles per day.
Ascent was somewhere around 135,000 feet, per Anquet.
The longest day was the last one, via Cape Wrath to Kervaig, which came in at 24.5 miles. (Seems that a few days were longer than I estimated at the time; from a psychological point of view, it was probably best for me to think, at the time, that they’re shorter than they were!)
On arriving home Mick had lost a stone, whereas I had lost 5lbs (which is what I lost in the first two weeks).
Mick lost a bit more weight (and a good few years) a few hours later when the beard came off.
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