DAVE WALKS LEJOG 

Wick to John o'Groats. 22.3 miles. Total walk length: 1268.9 miles. I did it. At just after 3pm I rounded Duncansby Head – the furthest...

Helmsdale to Dunbeath. 16.5 miles. Miles to date: 1221.5. I'm up at 5.30 and out the door by 8. I'd vowed to get earlier starts on my...

Tain to Golspie. 23.3 miles. Miles to date: 1184.8. I wake to the cries of seagulls and gold streaked above the Dornoch firth. It has...

Inverness to Evanton. 19.6 miles. Miles to date: 1144.1. What a painfully boring walk. You know it’s not been a good one when the moment...

Drumnadrochit to Inverness. 19.7 miles. Miles to date: 1124.5. There was a moment on today's walk when I was sitting in the sun drinking...

Invermoriston to Drumnadrochit. 14.3 miles. Miles to date: 1104.8. The driver of the No. 919 Citylink bus from Inverness to Fort William...

Fort William to Laggan Locks. 23 miles. Miles to date: 1069.1. Around 400 million years ago, at the end of the Caledonian orogeny, the...

Kinlochleven to Fort William. 17.6 miles. Miles to date: 1046.1. Saturday night at Kinlochleven's Ice Factor turned into the send-off The...

Glencoe Mountain Resort to Kinlochleven. 10.1 miles. Miles to date: 1027.8. I wake at first light. It has not been a good night’s sleep...

Tyndrum to Glencoe Mountain Resort. 18.1 miles. Miles to date: 1017.7. In 1956 Philip Rankin had a dream. He would build the first...

Ardlui ferry to Tyndrum. 14.4 miles. Miles to date: 999.6. Any day that opens with an after-breakfast ferry ride across the wild waters...

Rowardennan to Ardlui jetty. 12.8 miles. Miles to date: 985.2. Consciousness returns. Radio with news stories that I lost touch with...

Killeath to Rowardennan. 19.6 miles. Miles to date: 972.4. It was a day of two narratives, both working in opposition. On the one hand my...

Kilsyth to Killearn. 20.9 miles. Miles to date: 952.8. Sometimes the accommodation makes all the difference. In Allanfauld Farm B&B I...

West Linton to Winchburgh. 22.9 miles. Miles to date: 903.3. As the miles and days drop away on the trip north, the things you love – and...

Melrose to Innerleithen. 19.7 miles. Miles to date: 858.1. When I left well-to-do Melrose this morning I was still trying to work out why...

Jedburgh to Melrose. 18.8 miles. Miles to date: 838.4. It was hard, on entering the breakfast room of the B&B, not to notice the strange...

Kirk Yetholm to Jedburgh. 17.5 miles. Miles to date: 819.6. Today’s walk had something of an Enid Blyton feel. If the Famous Five had...

Byrness to Kirk Yetholm. 25.4 miles. Miles to date: 802.1. At around 10.30am in the remote Coquet Valley I passed through a nondescript...

Alston to Greenhead. 15.7 miles. Miles to date: 737.1. Here’s a fact for you: the market town of Alston, where today’s walk started, is...